Online Dating: People are Racist on OkCupid, Classist on Tinder
Online dating seems to bring out the worst in people.
Does online dating bring out the worst in people? Seems so, based on data and experiments on online dating platforms.
In a video from The Atlantic embedded above, Christian Rudder, co-founder of the dating site OkCupid, gives us some interesting insights from the platform’s data. He found that black users of the site get 25 percent less replies, messages and level of ratings from users of all other races.
Rudder said he was most surprised at how stereotypical the site’s users are.
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