Question 12 of 10
If you know someone’s stated “type”, how well can you predict who they actually pick in person?
Barely at all — and that includes your own type.
Eastwick, Luchies, Finkel & Hunt (2014). Stated ideals predict how someone rates a photograph. Once two people are in a room together the predictive power largely evaporates, for everybody.
Source: peer-reviewed or nationally representative surveyNine more questions, every answer from published research. You are scored on how far off you were and in which direction — never on how many you got right.