Also, young people often are bad at determining how impressive someone is so they go off the social cues of just believing that they're acting genuinely in line with their status. This means someone moderately attractive treating 21 year olds like they're just barely worth their time can often get anything from sex to unpaid overtime if they sell it well and are indiscriminately fishing.

Most people grow out of it, but some don't. Then there's also that the pool isn't a representative sample of the population. The mature and discriminate are easy to miss (they filter heavily), more likely to leave low investment pools like tinder because the effort/value proposition is bad, and when they leave because of relationships will take longer to return to the pool. It's not that all the good ones are taken, its that most of the bad ones are looking.

The women that like arseholes, believe it or not, are also probably arseholes.

I've known many women who were very nice and intelligent, who dated assholes. Usually they end the relationship thinking "ugh, why did I do that? That guy was such an asshole."

They do this because women are human, and do the very human thing of making mistakes and regretting them.

Damn I need to power off. I'm like how does anyone write in their BIOS? I'm pretty sure it's just settings. 😅

Whatever. It gives off the impression of confidence. We're trying to explain observed phenomena here, not cast moral judgements.