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How Races and Religions Match in Online Dating
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Maybe they just tend to be more likely to tell people to f off. A reply isn't always a good reply. I would think you would need to look at conversation rates.
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#83Bullshit, us pastaferians are not represented in the religious statistics! This is heracy!
On the other hand I am glad I'm not Aquarius because statistically speaking they are insignificantly less compatible with an Aquarius. His noodelieness has blessed me well!
RAmen!
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#84Brilliant.
Free publicity. Great lesson in PR. Thank you.
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#85The article fails to mention statistical significance of race versus religion?
Because this data makes sense, I hesitate to protest. Nevertheless, I'd be interested to see if race is statistically significant versus religion.
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#86One possible explanation for the low Hindu-Hindu match is that there are many websites dedicated to specifically Hindu dating which means that the Hindus using OkCupid are those who are specifically not looking for a Hindu date. For other religions, such sites aren't nearly as prevalent.
I was going to post a comment directly disagreeing with this, and citing the large number of Jewish dating sites, but these are really only used by people on the more religious end of the spectrum, so it is possible that the effect is more prevalent in the Hindu-Hindu match calculations than in Jew-Jew match calculations. I would posit, however, that this effect, along with the self-selection bias of using a multi-cu…
Given that strongly religious people (of whatever religion) had a harder time matching, removing the most religious Jews would improve the compatibility of the remaining Jews.
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#87Endogamous marriages in Ashkenazi Jews have resulted in serious genetic disorders and hereditary diseases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews#Specific_disease...
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, so compare that with the message reply rate chart at the bottom of the article. Assuming the axes haven't changed from other charts on the page (which IMHO is a pretty good assumption)... It suggests that certain races have good matches with other races, but horrible reply rates . Reply rate may be the best metric okcupid has as to "success rate". It also suggests strong racial biases on the part of its users.
To elaborate more on your point: Many people claim they aren't racist when they refuse to date other races. They always say they haven't found the right guy/girl. What I've found from personal experience, is that the bar is set much higher for those minority races.
You can't attribute lack of attraction to racism.
While it's possible for people to not date anyone of a certain race because they are bigoted against that race, I think that it's more common for people to just not feel a strong physical attraction towards certain races. My theory on this is that people that haven't grown up (at least during their childhood and/or teenage years) with many people of a certain race won't end up finding most of the 'feature' characteristics of that race to be attractive (i.e. if you grow up in a mostly white neighborhood you might not find black women attractive).
I could be completely off-base here. I have no idea how the development of attraction in the brain works (and I'm sure there's probably much research into this area of psychology). But I tend to find that a lot of people (whether they admit to it or not) have a preference for certain races and not others. Sometimes people don't have a preference for their own race. I know Asian women that are not attracted at all to Asian men, but that doesn't stop them from having Asian men as friends and interacting with them. I would hardly think that they are bigoted against Asians (seeing as they are Asian themselves).
> What I've found from personal experience, is that the bar is set much higher for those minority races.
It's not necessarily minority races. There are plenty of people that are not attracted to others of their own race. 'Yellow-fever,' 'jungle-fever,' etc weren't created for 'one-off' instances (i.e. the person accused of having 'the fever' only dated a person of that race once, and doesn't have an affinity to dating persons of that race) of inter-racial dating/mating/marriage.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
"where is it written that like thinkers make great companions?" OKCupid does not judge match percentage based on similar answers. For every question on the system it will ask for your answer and your ideal mate's answer. The system knows that some things are important to some people - but maybe not in reverse.
4. People Know what they want Clearly they don't - otherwise they wouldn't be on okcupid in the first place.
What do you mean by this?
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but if Hindu men like ice cream, and I don't want Hindu men, I might not like men who like ice cream either because a) it's what Hindu men do, or b) I don't like people who like ice cream to begin with, and I don't like Hindu men for that reason. So it's not totally unrelated.
Some Hindu men will say they like ice cream. Some Hindu men will say they don't.
Well, I'm not sure why I was down-modded. However, I hope I didn't offend anyone. Race/religion can be touchy subjects.