OKCupid Data Reveals The Disturbing Truth About How People Pick Their Partners

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  • king hassan
    king hassan Members Posts: 22,739 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Go leave the house and there you go, ? sitting at a CPU picking up women
  • LUClEN
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    and in more recent news scientists discover that elevators elevate
  • Ol Jay's
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    when considering the data keep in the type of weirdos that use dating website
  • Ol Jay's
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  • The Lonious Monk
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    BoldChild wrote: »
    Not surprising.

    This is irrelevant if black people are sticking together.

    lol @ Asian women still preferring white men over other Asians.

    But Black people aren't really sticking together. Based on that data Black men ain't really checking for Black women. Black women do seem to strongly stick with Black men, but is that out of loyalty or the fact that nobody else wants them. And of course, Black women will call Black men disloyal, but if no one wants them at all shouldn't they start looking at themselves just a little bit. It can't be a physical thing because pretty much everyone finds Black women to be beautiful, so there has to be some kind of stigma that keeps men away from them. We already know there is a stigma against Black men (e.g., we're all thugs, criminals, dumb, etc...).

    People judge other races by what they see on tv. Black women portrayal on tv is basketball wives and love and hiphop and other reality shows. So all men of other races see is ratchet, loud,bad attitude, etc. Media only show black women on tv acting a fool. Any man not trying to deal with that

    I don't know if that's true. At least not completely. I don't have the demographics for those shows in front of me, but I'm going to go on a limb and say men of any race don't make up a particularly large portion of the viewers for them. And even if you're right, you can't blame the media for those shows. They aren't scripted in a way to unfairly portray black women. That's how they portray themselves. There are white versions of all those shows, and though the women in those are petty and stupid too, they aren't throwing champagne bottles at each other.

    its already proven that people get perception of other races from Media, not only in america but in other parts of the world.

    I dont know if you travel but if you did you would of know this already.

    Media on Black People is overly negative, look at commercials for us, how we are seen in the news, TV shows ect ect.

    Its chess not checkers out here.

    I never said that wasn't true. I was talking about the shows he named in particular moreso than media in general. I believe media plays a part, but I don't think that's the only thing that does it. It's like a one-two punch. People have preconceptions based on what they see in the media, and then run into people in real life that reinforce those stereotypes. The point I was trying to make is that Black women don't always like to admit that they have a lot of chicks out there misrepresenting them. The same can be said about Black men, but we have no problem admitting that there are plenty of ? out there making us look bad.
  • GorillaWitAttitude
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    Can't flag the truth. Like I said we are the second most wanted men. Fact.
  • deadeye
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    Is this really surprising though?
  • GorillaWitAttitude
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    deadeye wrote: »
    Is this really surprising though?
    Naw cuz it's ? especially with the Asian not liking the Black men data.
  • zombie
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    deadeye wrote: »
    Is this really surprising though?
    Naw cuz it's ? especially with the Asian not liking the Black men data.

    how the ? wwould you know you are a ? ?
  • GorillaWitAttitude
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    zombie wrote: »
    deadeye wrote: »
    Is this really surprising though?
    Naw cuz it's ? especially with the Asian not liking the Black men data.

    how the ? wwould you know you are a ? ?

    You don't want it today. So serious mane you don't want it. Keep on flagging like a little ? doe.


    P.S. I see Asian women with Black men all the time. Plus, there's a lot of oriental chicks that like Black men.
  • A Talented One
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    SneakDZA wrote: »
    People aren't noticing some interesting trends in the data.

    Anyway, what is interesting is that black men's ratings have gone down among all women except black women. I wonder what explains that. Could it be that the men on the site are becoming less attractive, or that something else is going on in the culture at large? Some people seem to think that race-relations is on a march forward, however halting it may sometimes be. But I think things can fluctuate and get better or worse. The data suggests that, in dating at least, things are getting worse.
    People can't seem to understand the graphs. One of the most striking things is how drastic things have changed in how Asian women rate Asian men: their ratings have gone up significantly. They now rate Asian men higher than white men.

    I think you're leaving out a factor in your interpretation - when that site started it's user base was primarily in metropolitan areas where it's likely that there are more diverse groups and people with more progressive attitudes; as it spread in popularity it also attracted more users who live in or come from places with little to no diversity. Basically the stats are less skewed towards cities now and shifting more towards a representation of society as a whole.

    But I am seeing reasons to believe that more diversity makes some people less willing to date out. For example, I think you'd find more white chicks who love brothers from, say, Minneapolis than Chicago.



    Edit: You are right though that the demographics of the site may be changing and that that is what explains why our ratings have gone down.
  • A Talented One
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    deadeye wrote: »
    Is this really surprising though?
    Naw cuz it's ? especially with the Asian not liking the Black men data.

    Filipinos are the only Asians that I see love brothers to any significant extent, generally speaking.
  • GorillaWitAttitude
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    deadeye wrote: »
    Is this really surprising though?
    Naw cuz it's ? especially with the Asian not liking the Black men data.

    Filipinos are the only Asians that I see love brothers to any significant extent, generally speaking.

    True, I seen some Chinese and Korean chicks in my area that love Black men.
  • Stew
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    Go leave the house and there you go, ? sitting at a CPU picking up women

    Or you can be a Super Scumbag and do both.
  • GorillaWitAttitude
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    Stew wrote: »
    Go leave the house and there you go, ? sitting at a CPU picking up women

    Or you can be a Super Scumbag and do both.

    I learned the hard way to not deal with internet hoes............NEVER again.
  • Stew
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    Stew wrote: »
    Go leave the house and there you go, ? sitting at a CPU picking up women

    Or you can be a Super Scumbag and do both.

    I learned the hard way to not deal with internet hoes............NEVER again.

    Well from the way you're treated on here I can see why they wouldnt deal with you either.
  • GorillaWitAttitude
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    Stew wrote: »
    Stew wrote: »
    Go leave the house and there you go, ? sitting at a CPU picking up women

    Or you can be a Super Scumbag and do both.

    I learned the hard way to not deal with internet hoes............NEVER again.

    Well from the way you're treated on here I can see why they wouldnt deal with you either.

    Naw lil ? they crazy as hell that's why. Like I said never again wit internet hoes.
  • Cocoa_Butter
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    SneakDZA wrote: »
    People aren't noticing some interesting trends in the data.

    Anyway, what is interesting is that black men's ratings have gone down among all women except black women. I wonder what explains that. Could it be that the men on the site are becoming less attractive, or that something else is going on in the culture at large? Some people seem to think that race-relations is on a march forward, however halting it may sometimes be. But I think things can fluctuate and get better or worse. The data suggests that, in dating at least, things are getting worse.
    People can't seem to understand the graphs. One of the most striking things is how drastic things have changed in how Asian women rate Asian men: their ratings have gone up significantly. They now rate Asian men higher than white men.

    I think you're leaving out a factor in your interpretation - when that site started it's user base was primarily in metropolitan areas where it's likely that there are more diverse groups and people with more progressive attitudes; as it spread in popularity it also attracted more users who live in or come from places with little to no diversity. Basically the stats are less skewed towards cities now and shifting more towards a representation of society as a whole.

    But I am seeing reasons to believe that more diversity makes some people less willing to date out. For example, I think you'd find more white chicks who love brothers from, say, Minneapolis than Chicago.

    Funny you say this. If I'm not mistaken, the Midwestern (and some parts of the south) regions of the U.S. have the highest rate of interracial relationships, and, ironically, they're considered the most racist areas of the country.
  • LUClEN
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    Taboo is a very popular niche in porn
  • Will Munny
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    OKCupid is for ? ? . Who cares what those sluices think.
  • Knives Amilli
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    deadeye wrote: »
    Is this really surprising though?
    Naw cuz it's ? especially with the Asian not liking the Black men data.

    Filipinos are the only Asians that I see love brothers to any significant extent, generally speaking.

    .....And even tho those hoes are ? servicemen to come over to the states.....
  • Swiffness!
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    i been seeing threads on the IC about how black women are ugly and perpetually angry and blah blah blah for a decade

    shocked the numbers aren't worse
  • whatevathehell
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    Ol Jay's wrote: »
    when considering the data keep in the type of weirdos that use dating website

    this, pretty much, yo social skills are at the point where you gotta hop on the net to meet someone....

    on a side note black women didnt get a positive rating from no one.
  • CracceR
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    i see white dudes with blacc women and asian chiccs with blacc dudes......f these statistics
  • GorillaWitAttitude
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    CracceR wrote: »
    i see white dudes with blacc women and asian chiccs with blacc dudes......f these statistics

    Word