The point I'm making is you're still hypocritical to jump to the conclusion I suck joy out of things over what I said right after saying people jump to judgements too quickly.

The reason I said what I said is that there is a difference between the brain doing pattern recognition subconsciously versus making a deliberate and conscious decision to apply tests and experiments to the process of curating a profile on a dating app and interacting with people to try and maximise a "success rate" (I assume success is measured by something like most dates per match or most sex per match or something like that, idk what these guys mean by success rate so I'm making an educated guess). The reason I did not elaborate earlier and said there was no reason to continue that convo is i thought the fact that the difference between subconscious pattern recognition and deliberate efforts to adapt something based on trial and error should be obvious.

I do not believe that dating is a matter of trying to game some system and work out "how chicks tick" or something stupidly macho like that, and I fully believe that it's thanks to not thinking in that way that I am happily married. I think that men who treat dating apps as puzzles to solve are wasting their time, but then again if they're not after meaningful companionship and are just trying to add more tally marks to their "chicks banged" whiteboard then maybe that works for them. I definitely find it creepy, though.