Okay yeah, my impression is that these apps are much more useful to their users. And yeah that seems most relevant.
Well, somewhat humorously, I still don’t need to after learning more about your experience.
But yeah there will always be a middle ground, but it’s hard to tell how thick that will be. I’d guess that it moves as well, so probably not stable long term unless someone’s bang in the middle and it’s wide enough.
I don’t think it will be as stark a discontinuity as that (and as I’ve said, 5% is an example number, it could be 10% or maybe even 20%, at some point it’s questionable, though).
There also could be multiple 5% groups that add up to 15% or whatever, split up as clusters of commonly selected profiles.
If you measured the relevant stats, I suspect you’d find something like this (the right hand side for men). It’s attractiveness (x) vs probability of receiving a like (y). Hopefully it’s obvious how that kind of distribution can produce a breakpoint around a 95/5 or 90/10 split. (This is from the Why Men Get So Few Matches on Dating Apps video I linked earlier)
I think there’s a small middle ground, but I don’t know how wide it is or if there’s any available data on that kind of thing (I haven’t seen any if there is).