In a CivicScience survey, many more U.S. adults (36%) said they're "terrible" at flirting than said they're "good at it" (20%). However, those earning $150,000 or more in annual household income were far more likely to say they're good at it (31%), and less likely to say they're terrible at it (29%).

Data Source: CivicScience InsightStore
Visualization: Infogram

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29 comments

  1. When you have money, you don’t need flirting skills.

  2. To be fair, some of the skills required for flirting, like charisma, could also tend to help you make more. I do think this is funny, but there might be some truth to it.

  3. People who are good at flirting tend to negotiate higher salaries, and make more connections, have larger networks. It’s all part of the same fundamental social skills.

  4. Confidence helps a lot, and it is easier to be confident when you got the dough.

  5. Money solves a lot of problems. When you are not stressing about money, dating and flirting becomes easier.

  6. Being charismatic, attractive and tall helps you both in business and in dating. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a correlation to dating success too… So more success dating = people believing they are better at flirting.

  7. I’m sure attractive people think they are better at flirting too. Easy to say you can flirt if people are attracted to you anyway

  9. Surprised no one has mentioned this but people with higher income jobs probably can do the same “flirting” that someone with a lower income job and get better results. So their perception of being better at flirting is based on true data but they are not actually doing anything differently.

  10. Households don’t flirt, people do. That’s a weird metric.

  11. Modern society assigns a tremendous value to a persons income and this instill a level of confidence when approaching an opposite sex as any other failings they have are offset by their ability to provide security/luxury as a temptation.

  12. I flirt because I’m rich. I’m rich because I flirt.

    It’s a vicious cycle 

  13. By this chart I’m a high earner and I’d say I’m also very good at it. I think a lot of being good at flirting is being socially aware, likeable, high confidence, and not shy at all. I’m guessing there’s a correlation between people who feel that way and high earners also.

  14. Confidence breeds more confidence & money breeds confidence, its a self fulfilling cycle

  16. If success at flirting depends not only on skill but also on income, then high income might be deluding themselves into thinking they’re high skill when their success just comes from their high income.

  17. Well having more money means you are more likely to be successful I’d guess

  18. Looks like people with a partner (two income households) are better at flirting than single people 

  19. You could argue higher charisma tends to equal higher salaries. You could also argue having a higher salary tends to help a lot in getting attention/confidence.

  20. A person making that kind of cash could say “I like turtles” and it would work on most people.

    Flirting requires TWO people. Doing a study on only 1 is quite silly and provides little actionable evidence.

  21. How in the fuck do more than 50 percent of people think they are good at flirting

  23. I’m sure I’d be more attractive making six figures

  24. I’d love to see what happens the further you go into the tail of the income distribution.

    Do you see another big increase at a higher income. Is it a smooth function as ppl earn more then think themselves better at flirting or are there levels you need to hit before the distribution changes, or is 150 enough and the mix is the same?

  25. just go to r/passport_bros sub and you see how deluded some of these people are

    “I have a good job and am great with the ladies” but they are not into me it must be the western woman are bad and not me who is a awesome

  26. All they’re done is indirectly confirmed gold diggers are a real thing since they probably get much better responses when their wealth can be flaunted and so are more convinced they’re better at it

  27. If you’re looking at Household income rather than individual income, a higher income probably means that the person surveyed is already in a successful relationship. Seems like that’d skew the data to higher household incomes considerably. Imo looking at individual incomes for this survey would be more revealing

  28. Intelligence correlates with income as well as humor/wittiness. Attractiveness also correlates with income. As does confidence. Lots at play here.

  29. How does this compare to age? Age is generally correlated with income.

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