>Cultural hobbies did well — even following politics didn’t do terribly. Birdwatching was perceived as a much more attractive hobby than the original meme graph depicted it.

>We grouped hobbies into what could be called practical survival skills. The most survival-y of these, hunting, fishing, and shooting, were actually rated the lowest. This is not surprising, given that these carry some political and cultural baggage. We tend to get a pretty even 50/50 split for political ideology in our samples, so about half of the sample finding hobbies that are right-coded as attractive or unattractive may just reflect culture and politics. Cooking, however, is attractive to almost all women.
Birdwatching made it onto this list because it’s a naturalist skill and you have to see a bird to kill and eat it.

>The martial hobbies of fencing, riding, and archery did better than boxing/MMA and shooting. Fencing, riding, and archery may be associated with higher social class than boxing and shooting, despite being less practical modern martial skills.

>We coded hobbies as consumption-based; basically what was passive entertainment. Movies, seeing plays/musicals, going to concerts, and reading did well. The rest did poorly.

>“Mechanics” in our dataset was working on cars as a hobby: this got rated pretty well. Women were less impressed by magic tricks, bowling, and riding motorcycles.