Dating App Reveals Racial Preferences

[Grummgug]

http://techland.time.com/2013/11/26/...l-preferences/



Almost all male groups prefer asians the most. No surprise there.

Posted by Time magazine about a year ago but I just saw it.

[kyoloco]

they are the most beautiful

imo

[Tyrgannus]

Wow, I feel bad for black women. That is just shocking.

[s_bushido]

Is a dating app (with only two options: "yes" and "skip") really a good metric for this sort of thing...?

I don't know...seems about as reliable as basing people's choices in partners on the type of porn they watch.

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Is a dating app (with only two options: "yes" and "skip") really a good metric for this sort of thing...?

I don't know...seems about as reliable as basing people's choices in partners on the type of porn they watch.

Lots of other proper ones have been done (plenty of fish, eharmony, etc etc) and all line up fairly evenly with this.

[diddle]

Asians are hottest. My wife is Vietnamese

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Hope this won't devolve into something that it shouldn't be.

I am one of those who hasn't found a single black woman attractive. Not because of race or skincolor, I just do not get attracted to them.

I prefer women who live nearby my area (Sweden)

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Is a dating app (with only two options: "yes" and "skip") really a good metric for this sort of thing...?

I don't know...seems about as reliable as basing people's choices in partners on the type of porn they watch.

It seems to be about on par with what every other survey and study into this field has shown. The reasons for it are an altogether different one. There were even some explanations for why black women were the only ethnicity not to respond the most to white males (peer pressure, expectations from family/friends, mostly isolating themselves within the afro american community and so on).

The whole thing is kinda sad.

Hope this won't devolve into something that it shouldn't be.

I am one of those who hasn't found a single black woman attractive. Not because of race or skincolor, I just do not get attracted to them.

I prefer women who live nearby my area (Sweden)

Fairly few around where I live, nowhere near enough to give enough of a number worth mentioning. But there's some cute ones there also, I guess most of them just don't fit what most humans have defined as the "ideal" by now. But then, I find the vast mayority of women pretty bland no matter their ethnicity.

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Germans.

God I love Germans.

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Germans.

God I love Germans.

How is that related to the topic at hand?

[Bartumus22]

I have dated a woman from almost all races, except asian...... Lucy Liu.....my dear

[tratra]

Wow, I feel bad for black women. That is just shocking.

what about the white ones? are not even getting a response at all.

Lol time, time, time, time, worst magazine? yes!

Tell us which app it is that you took it from, not just a known facebook app. Like what the app that gave you the graph and pulled the data from their db doesn't want to pubish its name? ye sure... free advertisment why should they use it eh? ... Cut the C*** time.

I find this article annoying, missleading, useless etc etc. Without a source of which app published the data how can I judge?
Also lets not forget that the majority of people don't even have an ethnicity on FB, so how does that amazing app that its name is not reveiled gives accurate results.

[taliey]

So we have preferences when we date. Okay.

Considering its a dating app, our sample size is pretty much limited to those who use it.

It should be more like, dating app demographics.

[Pendulous]

So what you're saying is that the demographic of people who would use a dating app aren't looking for an actual relationship.

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How is that related to the topic at hand?

Meh, we're generalizing about appearances are we not?

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what about the white ones? are not even getting a response at all.

Lol time, time, time, time, worst magazine? yes!

Tell us which app it is that you took it from, not just a known facebook app. Like what the app that gave you the graph and pulled the data from their db doesn't want to pubish its name? ye sure... free advertisment why should they use it eh? ... Cut the C*** time.

I find this article annoying, missleading, useless etc etc. Without a source of which app published the data how can I judge?
Also lets not forget that the majority of people don't even have an ethnicity on FB, so how does that amazing app that its name is not reveiled gives accurate results.

It analysed 2.4 million interactions.

Also if you'd bother to Google you'd find numerous other dating websites (with millions of users) have shown a similar trend.

[kyoloco]

Wow, I feel bad for black women. That is just shocking.

i dated a black girl briefly

she wasnt very pleasant

and bullied me constantly

but dat ass :P

[tratra]

Meh, we're generalizing about appearances are we not?

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It analysed 2.4 million interactions.

Also if you'd bother to Google you'd find numerous other dating websites (with millions of users) have shown a similar trend.

again you didn't even read half of my comment... its impossible to track ethnicity unless you have a machine learning algorythm that does that by analyzing the skin color - shape of the face from the images, which is not impossible but facebook is not there yet, neither dating apps.

[Anakso]

what about the white ones? are not even getting a response at all.

They are, this only shows the highest and the lowest so white women would be somewhere in between those numbers.

On topic, if you just pay attention to the arrows then yea it looks bad but look at the numbers and not so much. Black women still get more responses than any of the men. The only number from men that is higher than any of the lowest number on the women side is Black Women -> Black Men which is slightly higher than 2 of the women numbers.
The difference between lowest response and highest response on the female side seems to be about 50% so not a major difference either when you take into account how many people yo go through on these dating apps, doubt any one race is left wanting.

[Crissi]

again you didn't even read half of my comment... its impossible to track ethnicity unless you have a machine learning algorythm that does that by analyzing the skin color - shape of the face from the images, which is not impossible but facebook is not there yet, neither dating apps.

Eh? But dating apps have a catagory called race that you put down yo1ur race as. WHite, black, ect. Prtety sure thats what its being judged on.

[diddle]

again you didn't even read half of my comment... its impossible to track ethnicity unless you have a machine learning algorythm that does that by analyzing the skin color - shape of the face from the images, which is not impossible but facebook is not there yet, neither dating apps.

It's a profile option