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Biologist Meike Stoverock proves female hypergamy

Interesting article with this known biologist, she explains with scientific evidence how females are selective and interested only in the 20% of better looking men. Her book "Female choice" is also interesting but it's in German
https://www.nzz.ch/english/as-women-gain-rights-some-men-are-left-without-partners-or-sex-ld.1725997
Do you ever post about anything else? Get a life. Talk to a real woman.
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So men with crap social skills can't find a wife so instead of looking at themselves and seeing what they can do to improve themselves they become misogynists and blame women for their short comings or turn to crime. Time for them to grow up I think.
'Better looking' is highly subjective.
Stoverock 's work doesn't seem to have drawn that much attention and her book was released a few years ago. Here's the longest English language review of it that I could find:

https://forbetterscience.com/2021/03/18/female-choice-by-meike-stoverock-book-review/
She finished her PhD (nearly 20 years ago) then worked as a web designer then a blogger, and now has published this book - there doesn't seem to be any evidence this is based on any kind of formalised, peer-reviewed academic research. She also has made sweeping, sensational claims that if true would reverberate across multiple fields - anthropology, archaeology, sociology, biology, etc. Which is a huge red flag for anything purported as some kind of academic theory, as invariably wildly sensational claims are inaccurate and don't account for the level of nuance and detail expected of such academic theories. Also given that she doesn't appear to be associated with any university even in a teaching capacity much less research capacity, referring to her as a "biologist" is perhaps somewhat misleading, as it suggests she is actively involved in contemporary research. Equally saying she "proves" this rather than "claims" (or if we are being charitable, "conjectures") it is also definitely misleading.

As general principle if someone, with an academic background or otherwise, suggests something which would completely reconfigure human understanding across half a dozen academic disciplines, it's probably based on a shaky understanding of most if not all of those and most likely both not generalisable outside of specific cases, and over-generalised in those specific cases it's based on. Anyone with a social media presence and a controversial enough opinion can say and get published as a book (rather than an academic monograph based on research published previously in peer-reviewed journals) anything they like (in fact increasingly having an active social media platform is becoming a prerequisite for being published outside of academic peer reviewed journals). The fact she is unable or unwilling to try and publish her arguments in a peer-reviewed journal speaks volumes I think.
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I love the attempt of bluepillers to attack and disqualify a scientist and researcher just because they don't like what she states with scientific evidence. You can't say she's an incel this time right? Lol. And she's just one of the many scientists and sociologists who agree on this point. The truth comes out eventually
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Original post by JackSan123
So men with crap social skills can't find a wife so instead of looking at themselves and seeing what they can do to improve themselves they become misogynists and blame women for their short comings or turn to crime. Time for them to grow up I think.
'Better looking' is highly subjective.

Have you read the article? It doesn't say that
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Original post by artful_lounger
She finished her PhD (nearly 20 years ago) then worked as a web designer then a blogger, and now has published this book - there doesn't seem to be any evidence this is based on any kind of formalised, peer-reviewed academic research. She also has made sweeping, sensational claims that if true would reverberate across multiple fields - anthropology, archaeology, sociology, biology, etc. Which is a huge red flag for anything purported as some kind of academic theory, as invariably wildly sensational claims are inaccurate and don't account for the level of nuance and detail expected of such academic theories. Also given that she doesn't appear to be associated with any university even in a teaching capacity much less research capacity, referring to her as a "biologist" is perhaps somewhat misleading, as it suggests she is actively involved in contemporary research. Equally saying she "proves" this rather than "claims" (or if we are being charitable, "conjectures") it is also definitely misleading.

As general principle if someone, with an academic background or otherwise, suggests something which would completely reconfigure human understanding across half a dozen academic disciplines, it's probably based on a shaky understanding of most if not all of those and most likely both not generalisable outside of specific cases, and over-generalised in those specific cases it's based on. Anyone with a social media presence and a controversial enough opinion can say and get published as a book (rather than an academic monograph based on research published previously in peer-reviewed journals) anything they like (in fact increasingly having an active social media platform is becoming a prerequisite for being published outside of academic peer reviewed journals). The fact she is unable or unwilling to try and publish her arguments in a peer-reviewed journal speaks volumes I think.

She's certainly much more skilled and qualified than you. And she's just one of the many scientists who confirm this. It's not even anything really new, Charles Darwin wrote similar things
Original post by Kawasa
She's certainly much more skilled and qualified than you. And she's just one of the many scientists who confirm this. It's not even anything really new, Charles Darwin wrote similar things

Name even 3 other scientists who are active faculty at a research university who have published anything supporting this in a peer reviewed journal. I would be extremely surprised if you can. I'd also note even that means little - even a handful of scientists is not a consensus. But it would illustrate the paucity of data to support the claim...

In relation my remark about consensus, it's very easy to cherry pick a small vocal minority of supporters for something which is not accepted at all by the wider scientific community and the existing consensus is the opposite of that. Global climate change being one of the most important examples as it crops up constantly that one of about 10 scientists are used as a "rebuttal" to the literal thousands upon thousands of others who have consensus that it does in fact exist and is happening.

Also in terms of the Darwin comment - just because a scientist has one successful theory doesn't mean everything else they have written is correct or infallible. Linus Pauling who was extraordinarily influential in the development of a number of fundamental theoretical and physical chemistry concepts, also believed the vitamin C was the cure for everything and consumed something like 1000% of the recommended daily allowance for it, and died of cancer because he refused any other conventional treatments in favour of that.

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