Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 11:03am

The NY Times has an interesting article about how online dating has allowed researchers to understand more about people’s willingness to date a non-perfect partner.  In reference to women:

“They prefer taller men, but they’re willing to relax their standards for the Ron Perelmans of the world, as revealed in a study of more than 20,000 online daters by Gunter Hitsch and Ali Hortacsu of the University of Chicago and Dan Ariely of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

They found that a 5-foot-8 man was just as successful in getting dates as a 6-footer if he made more money — precisely $146,000 a year more. For a 5-foot-2 man, the number was $277,000.”