Height Filters Limit Matches

Logan Ury shares a story about how women's height preferences on dating apps severely limit their dating pool.

"One stat I can tell you is that a lot of women set their height filter at six feet or taller and only 14% of the men in the US are six feet or taller. So you have women coming up to me at dinner parties holding up their phones saying 'I'm unhinged, where's my husband? Where is he?'

And I'm like, 'Yeah, he can't even get into your app because he's five nine and you're filtering him out.' It's like your app is a bouncer - your app is a club and your filters are a bouncer filtering him out.

I do think that apps have perpetuated this thing where because you can set filters which maybe you think about for thirty seconds - you're like 'yeah six feet is good' - and then you don't even realize the implications. When you multiply that across millions of people who are using apps, then yes, a disproportionate amount of attention goes to these guys over six feet and then the other guys are sitting there waiting to hear back from someone."