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As a platform for meeting people, online dating has been growing in popularity. As the dating sites were growing, there wasn't a lot of easily available data on the people who used them to draw many conclusions from a sociological standpoint, but now that the numbers of people who use these sites is in the tens of millions, that is changing. When looking at the balance between choosing traits that make for a good relationship match verses eliminating people based upon negative attributes, aka "deal breakers", it appears people predominately employ the latter strategy.
A group of sociologists from the University of Michigan led by Elizabeth Bruch obtained data from one of the large dating sites and they looked at a randomly-selected group of people from New York City to determine what factors in their decision-making process led them to select or eliminate potential mates.
Bruch and her team divided the rules into two broad categories, "deal breakers" and "deal makers," used to exclude or include people for the next level of contact. Bruch wondered: Is mate selection like a job interview process, where the person with the best combination of positive factors wins? Or is it more like a Survivor-style reality show, where contestants are picked off one by one for a single failing?
Among the deal breakers are:
- No profile photo: Men and women were 20 times less likely to look at this profile.
- Smoker: A 10-fold drop in interest.
- Age difference: Young women (20 yo) were 10X less likely to look at a profile of a man ten years older than her, older women (45 yo) were 10% more likely to consider a man ten years older than her, and men overall preferred women younger than them.
- Height difference: Women were 10X more likely to look at a profile of a guy 17 cm (6 in) taller than her while guys were 3X more likely to look a the profile of a woman 17cm shorter than him
- Body weight: Men were less likely to view a profile of a heavy-set woman while women showed no aversion to a heavy-set guy.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @04:54AM
Say "nigger" once and you're a racist forever.
Get arrested once for saying "nigger" once and you're a racist criminal forever.
Shout "yes I was arrested for saying nigger once" after getting arrested once for saying "nigger" once and you're a violent racist criminal forever.
Try to claim you have a First Amendment right to shout "yes I was arrested for saying nigger once" after getting arrested once for saying "nigger" once and you're an insane violent racist criminal forever.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @05:45AM
"Nigger" 8===> Troll
It's the Deal Breaker!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @06:58AM
McGregor, that you? Could it be that you are also known as, wait for it! Ethanol_fueled? Just once, really?
(Score: 0, Troll) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday September 06 2016, @09:15AM
May all your daughters be blessed with brown babies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @01:33PM
I aint letten mah ditta neer ya all white trash
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @08:21PM
I don't know why this is all modded as troll for the responses. Yelling at the troll with words that hurt the troll seems to be stooping to the same level, but it sure isn't trolling. It's responding in kind specifically to the troll. The troll itself has offended everyone.
I wouldn't call the guy that punched a bully in the nose after getting sick of his shit a bully.