Maybe men are bad at comprehension, or evaluating scientific methodology, or thinking in general.

This study is meaningless. There's no definition of average.

Further, if I'm looking for an average man to have a romantic relationship with, I don't give a fuck about average. I want tailor made. What is right for me, specifically. It's not my business or my place to make that determination for other women. Just because a man is not quite right or ill fitting for me doesn't mean he's not tailor made for another woman.

And I've got to narrow the field down to most likely perfect fit candidates in some manner.

I don't personally use dating apps. Tried them and found them useless. But I do evaluate men based primarily on how they carry themselves, their sense of presence, how they move and behave in public. And I'm not apologizing for or ditching those early cuts because I've got to make them.

(Not actually, anymore, because I'm on a quasi permanent hiatus from dating, but you know what I mean).

It's not like men don't do the same thing. They're just doing it before requesting a date so the rejection feels more societal to women and more personal to men.

Men would not want to be forced, coerced, shamed, or encouraged into asking every single woman out there to on a date. So don't throw that expectation at our feet either.