My wife is usually much better at telling when a girl was flirting, and when bets are made, she confirms later with the person on the side (these are usually people she already knows and so people who trust her, but also she maybe can read their particular tells, confounding the result). I often would read the same signals as “she’s just having a good time with me/the person” and be wrong. I’m not sure if I have the same advantage for men, I do more often bet on them flirting than she does, but I usual am unable to have independent confirmation, it’s random men we observe being possibly flirty.
Maybe it’s just the case that both of us see our genders as more flirty than the other does, and that bet pays on average? I’m not sure, that doesn’t feel like it explains my wife’s accuracy or my inaccuracy in predicting female flirting (although my prediction did get better through time).
Anecdata:
My wife is usually much better at telling when a girl was flirting, and when bets are made, she confirms later with the person on the side (these are usually people she already knows and so people who trust her, but also she maybe can read their particular tells, confounding the result). I often would read the same signals as “she’s just having a good time with me/the person” and be wrong. I’m not sure if I have the same advantage for men, I do more often bet on them flirting than she does, but I usual am unable to have independent confirmation, it’s random men we observe being possibly flirty.
Maybe it’s just the case that both of us see our genders as more flirty than the other does, and that bet pays on average? I’m not sure, that doesn’t feel like it explains my wife’s accuracy or my inaccuracy in predicting female flirting (although my prediction did get better through time).