Hung Chia-li, a matchmaker at the I Hsuan Agency, says that some women deliberately "downgrade" themselves on their personal information cards, changing a master's degree to a bachelor's degree or a bureau chief position to a section head, because they're afraid of scaring men off. Statistics show that more than half of all women with a college education or higher have married husbands less well educated than they are.
在怡軒社擔任紅娘的洪嘉勵指出，有些女性會員，在資料卡上自動「降格」，碩士改填學士，是經理卻填科長，就怕男性仰之彌高，避退三舍。根據統計，大專程度以上女性，有半數「下嫁」學歷不如她者。