Thursday, September 28, 2006

A Quantitative Analysis of Online Dating

imjustatomato writes "Never before has something so human and primitive as dating been reducible to such discrete values. A study analyzes the data of an online dating service. When do you like someone like yourself? Among online dating members, "marital status" and "wants children" are the two most influential characteristics to match. Other interesting findings are: men initiate 73.3% of messages, but their initiations are 17.9% less likely to be reciprocated; 78.2% of messages are never responded to."

Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/28745001/article.pl

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