That is not true, and I told you about this long ago in fact. The amount of men willing to go up to women in real life and introduce themselves is astonishingly low, it takes a LOT of courage.
In person interaction is far more equal.
Bronson I've studied this type of stuff.
The whole pick up culture has stats on this. I've seen guys' numbers.
Hell i've done pick up on women myself and i absolutely hated it. I decided it wasn't worth it. it was SO awkward and a lot of the women didn't like that some guy they don't know was trying talk to them.
When you approach a woman in public, the odds of her having a significant other is over 50%.
That's at least 60% or so of women that will reject the man right off the bat because she's in a relationship. Then factor in all the women that are scared of the guy so she'll use the "i have a b/f/husband" excuse. Increases that
60% number higher.
In online, at least 90% of women don't use that excuse. It would be weird if they did use "i have a b/f" excuse on a dating site.
You see what i'm getting at? Over half of the women a man approaches in person is going to give that type of excuse ("i have a b/f/husband/fiancee or I'm not looking for a b/f, etc)
I've seen numbers on guys who go around and approach women and the average guy sleeps with like .03% of the women he approaches.
Most guys quit after the first weekend of approaching because the odds of getting a g/f or getting laid or so bad for most men.
Plus it absolutely sucks....approaching women in person. It's usually really awkward and like you said the girl isn't used to being approached so she usually gets uncomfortable no matter how good the guy's "game" is.
I'd have to say the odds are pretty similar for success with online vs. real life approaches.
If an average guy approaches women, he'll probably wind up sleeping with about 1 out of every 1000 girls he approaches. And if he wants a g/f it will probably take around 3000-5000 approaches.
Those numbers are rough but those are about the odds on approaching women from what i've seen.
I was in a forum with an average looking filipino fella who approached 10000 women and he only slept with 8 of them....to give you an idea