David Friedman wrote:
>Consider a female looking for a mate. ... she doesn't know who the best
>male is until she knows what her options are, ... So one might expect a
>complicated process of each side signalling a possible interest, everyone
>revising estimates, another clearer set of signals, ... There is probably
>a better method with modern technology and ingenuity, but not one
>available to hunter gatherers.
Yes we would expect a lot of fluctuations in expressions of degrees of
interest because of this. But if we compare flirting to job hunting, for
example, it sure seems to me that mating signals are more ambiguous that
can be explained by this alone. Job matching also requires fluctuations
in interest expressed, but seems far less ambiguous.
Robin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hanson.gmu.edu
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