Who gets rated higher: age, age gap and the reciprocity myth - from 24 million ratings
In the previous piece I went through 24 million ratings from our app Rate Me (people rate each other's photos 1-10) and showed four things: the dip at nine, men underrating men, countries rating differently, raters getting tired within a session. The most common follow-up question was about age. So here is age - plus one myth I believed myself. Same disclaimer as last time: this is data about how…
The analysis of 24 million ratings from the Rate Me app reveals the significant impact of age on rating behavior. Men and women tend to rate differently based on the age gap between the rater and the rated, with men rating women more generously as the man is older and women rating men more critically when the man is older. There is no reciprocity effect, as the correlation between the average rating given and received by users with both ≥100 ratings given and ≥100 received is essentially zero (-0.046).
The data suggests that how much one rates others has no relation to how much they receive in return.
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