To discover whether the same rules hold on the Net, Strassberg and his student Stephen Holty crafted fictitious ads and place them on three popular Internet dating bulletin boards. Although the ads described both virtual men and women, only those for the female cyber dates attracted enough responses to permit analysis.

To discover whether the same rules hold on the Net, Strassberg and his student Stephen Holty crafted fictitious ads and place them on three popular Internet dating bulletin boards. 为了弄清这一规则是否也适用于网上世界，strassberg和他的学生史蒂芬 holty精心制作了虚假的征婚广告，并将它们粘贴到三个人气很旺的网上交友信息栏中。
Although the ads described both virtual men and women, only those for the female cyber dates attracted enough responses to permit analysis. 虽然广告中描述了虚拟的男男女女，但只有那些女性的网上约会广告吸引了相当多的回复足以进行研究分析。