Odds Favor White Men, Asian Women On Dating App

NPR ^ | 30 Nov 2013 | Kat Chow and Elise Hu

[Theoria]

Researchers recently took data from the Facebook app Are You Interested and found that not only is race a factor in our online dating interests, but particular races get disproportionately high — and low — amounts of interest.

Of the 2.4 million heterosexual interactions researchers reviewed, the findings show:

• Women get three times the interactions men do.
• All men seemed to be more interested in people outside their race.
• Black men and women get the lowest response rates to their messages.
• All women except black women are most drawn to white men, and men of all races (with one notable exception) prefer Asian women.

The business site Quartz graphed these preferences using data on the percentage of "yes" responses to the "Are you interested?" question on the app. The data suggest some uncomfortable stories about racial preferences in online dating.

Back in 2009, the folks over at OKCupid culled through the site's data and similarly found that race played a big role in who would respond to messages, with some similar (and a few different) findings.

Some quick facts from the OKCupid data:

• Black women respond the most.
• White men get more replies from almost every group.
• White women prefer white men; Asian and Latina women prefer them "even more exclusively."

[Theoria]

[Last Dakotan]

Kat Chow?

[James C. Bennett]

And online dating is mostly used by those seeking a short-term fling.

[chris37]

Lol gee I wonder why.

[Altura Ct.]

Yawn

Just something else those of Marxist ilk can run around in circles about.

[Theoria]

Yep. I’ve posted a previous article from her about The Slants.

[cartan]

So, what do black women have against white men?

[MrB]

Wow... those bottom two quadrants really tell a tale, don’t they?

[Antihero101607]

Also, Facebook app users. Youths, millenials, etc. Not exactly representative of all users, or all users who aren’t narcissistic dimwits.

[KC_Lion]

Wow

I would make a comment about Park Bom and her awesome vid about love.

But lets face it. You’ve already made it in your hrad XD

[montag813]

SEXUAL RACISM! Paging Eric Holder!

[Tenacious 1]

This is hilarious.

Validity of such nonsense aside..... Women go for money and men go for intelligence. Apparently somebody stumbled on to at least one societal desire for white men. Who would have guessed there would be a want, need or desire for white men in today’s culture.

For rear of being labelled a racist, I’ll not venture into speculation about the potential subconscious implications of the results.

[Da Coyote]

NPR, being liberal and (obviously) not very bright....once again follows the tradition of finding racial causes for everything.

Shove it, NPR.

Up your collective smelly government sponsored Obamaholes.

[qam1]

So Black Women respond more to Asian men than White Men?

And

Asian Guys respond most to Latin Women?????

Huh??

[MrB]

In this case, “race” is simply a proxy of the attraction to culture, upbringing, and ambition.

[Theoria]

Chuckle. No worries, apparently Cupid did a same sex survey:

*Blacks get fewer responses.
*Whites respond by far the least to anyone
*Asian lesbians are in demand, and they’re picky about other races.
*Men prefer Middle Easterners.

[dead]

To quote the almost-incestous, almost-pedophile Woody Allen, "The heart wants what the heart wants."

As a white man, it's nice to know I'm dreamy.

[Aevery_Freeman]

And yet advertisers seem to be trying to push a myth of "black feminine beauty" using barely mocha women.

Oh yes, and Michelle Obama is the most beautiful woman on Earth.

[Anton.Rutter]

They’ve got their Obamaphones. They can set the ringers on “vibrate” and stick them down their pants.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Even black men do not want black women. The real question is why black woman want black men?