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If you were hoping your charming personality would be enough to woo a super model, think again.

Science says online dating has pretty much killed that dream. Researchers from Northwestern found that of “couples who met when they started dating, both people were about equally attractive…[however, in] friends-first couples, 3s dated 7s and 5s married 8s.” Alex Mayyasi explains on Priceonomics, “In a dating market of strangers, they agree more on who is most datable, so they compete and settle. When people know each other, the situation is more win-win, because they develop their own preferences and disagree on who is most desirable.” In other words, if you only meet someone as you begin dating them, you’re more likely to be about equally attractive to that person, where if you met someone through mutual friends or some other way your chances of the person being more or less attractive than you are much higher.