Wednesday, 9 April 2014

This Eye-Opening Video Shows That Racial Bias Is Alive And Well In The World Of Online Dating

When you look at the data, it turns out that love is still far from blind.


The data team at Are You Interested, a Facebook-based dating app, looked at over 2.4 million heterosexual interactions "to discover the likelihood of users to respond to other users based on race." What did they find?



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For example: Men replied most to Asian women, except for Asian men, who replied most to Latina women.


For example: Men replied most to Asian women, except for Asian men, who replied most to Latina women.


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White women were twice as likely to respond to white men as to black men.


White women were twice as likely to respond to white men as to black men.


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And Middle Eastern women were far and away the most popular group, with one in two men writing back to them.


And Middle Eastern women were far and away the most popular group, with one in two men writing back to them.


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