Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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Yesterday I spent an hour on the phone with college students working on a project about online dating. We talked about a lot of different aspects of online dating, from it’s history, to current trends and what’s coming in the future. They want to talk to more singles, can you spare a few minutes to [...]
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Let’s all help out Angela, a college student studying nonverbal communication. Angela asked me to promote her survey, which should take all of five minutes. The purpose of this survey is to determine what nonverbal behaviors occur most frequently during a first date and how those nonverbal behaviors are interpreted. Perhaps the research she is [...]
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In The Case For An Older Woman, the OkCupid tackles a tricky topic, unrealistic expectations of male daters. In this case, mainly that men want to date much younger women. I’m going to point to a few choice quotes and leave it at that.
…Men between 22 and 30—nearly two-thirds of the male dating pool—focus almost [...]
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From the “stating the obvious” department:
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER — “A forthcoming study by a Duke University researcher and several colleagues confirms what not-so-thin women and short, broke men have long suspected: They don’t get nearly as much romantic attention as skinny women and tall, financially secure guys. Online dating research impresario Dan Ariely worked with University [...]
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Great article about OKCupid in the New York Times, Looking for a Date? A Site Suggests You Check the Data.
In its fight against much bigger competitors like Match.com, PlentyOfFish and eHarmony, it has tried a number of marketing techniques, often with little success. But the blog, which OkCupid started in October, has helped get the [...]
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Last week my neighbor was playing Vivaldi with the volume at 11 on a Sunday morning. This of course means that he was getting busy. If the music didn’t give him away, I could have figured out what was going on by visiting I Just Made Love, an interactive map that displays the location of [...]
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A while back, Facebook came up with the United States Gross National Happiness. measurement.
When people in their status updates use more positive words–or fewer negative words–then that day as a whole is counted as happier than usual.
The graph contains several metrics. The first, GNH, represents our measure of Gross National Happiness. The other two, Positivity [...]
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TLC is doing a special Valentine’s night show called Sextistics: Your Love Life. A few stats to get you warmed up.
The average man’s ideal woman is 60lbs lighter than him.
A woman will get chatted up in bar 6 minutes faster if she is wearing make up.
Last year 21% of dates were organized via e-mail and [...]
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Yesterday I mentioned How to split up the US, which it turns out is just a taste of the analysis that researchers will be doing on the massive Facebook dataset made up of 210 million profiles set to be unleashed tomorrow but Pete Warden. That’s right, yours and mine, with our names intact (and some [...]
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