Bad Online Dating News for Some American Men
Arthur Dominic Villasanta | | Sep 16, 2014 10:02 AM EDT |
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Dating's never as easy as it looks on TV or in the movies. But some guys have it worse in real life.
If you're an African American man or an Asian man, you're going to have a tougher time getting a date on dating website OKCupid.
OKCupid co-founder Christian Rudder said users of the dating site have a clear bias against certain races. It smacks of racism and it probably is.
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Rudder examined at millions of OKCupid interactions between 2009 and 2014 involving some 25 million people. He charted the racial and gender preferences he uncovered by studying how users rated potential dates in QuickMatch.
This is a feature that shows a user the profiles of potential dates one at a time. It asks a user to rate these potential dates on a scale of one to five or skip them.
Rudder said Asian men, African American men and African American women got the worst ratings.
On the other hand, Asian women and Latina women got the best rankings.
Data gathered by Rudder showed these biases remained consistent between 2009 and 2014.
"Beauty is a cultural idea as much as a physical one, and the standard is of course set by the dominant culture," Rudder wrote in his blog.
"I believe that's what you see in the data here."
"The more you look at the data, the more it does confirm the cynics' intuition about humanity," he answered when asked if his data suggests men are sexist and everyone is racist.
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