Chapter 134 Question one two one

Why is it easier for people to find another friend of the opposite sex after they have a friend of the opposite sex? (Hetor. Zhuangduo) A young man becomes close friends with an attractive young girl.They maintain a very platonic relationship.One night, the girl invited the boy to the bar and said, I want to help you find a partner tonight.When the two arrived at the bar, the girl concentrated on looking at the other people present.While watching, she held the young man's arm affectionately, looked at him lovingly, and whispered to him from time to time.Then the girl said that she was leaving, and told the boy that I would meet him for coffee the next day.As soon as she was gone, the young man was struck up by several other attractive young girls.The boy was completely dumbfounded.Why were these girls suddenly showing so much interest in him?

Over coffee the next day, the girl was not at all surprised that the young man got so much attention, she said, I knew it would happen. It's hard to tell if a person is good enough just by looking at him, the girl explained.But because the other girls in the bar knew that attractive girls were generally popular with men, so for her, an attractive girl, to give such intimate attention to a man she knew obviously meant that the man was fine. The young man regards this experience as another example of the Matthew effect: whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough ("Matthew Gospel").