TABLE 9.

Literature.

Alignment of our work with existing literature looking at similarity between partners in mate and dating selections on various features. The list samples works that show similar method or dataset to ours. ¹List includes: Preferences, Personality traits, Education, Age, Income, Race, Ethnicity, attitudes, Intelligence, Attractiveness, Height, Body-Mass indices, Religion, Original location, SAT-scores, Network ties, Sexual preferences, Immune system, Strength, Genetics. ²In the Western world, but higher numbers in religious and traditional communities, (primarily outside of the U.S.). If we include a friend ‘introduction’ it climbs to 5–15%.