okcupid

Okcupid : From a statistical standpoint, OKCupid uses all the mathematical equations to search for the other half and people like the idea of dating through the Internet. According to the New York Times article, and thousands of people have flocked to the OKCupid site to see if he could find true love in this alternative to other sites (match.com & eHarmony.com)

Posted on OKCupid, and it gives surfers step by step graphs, charts and updates to help them understand where they are with the dating scene. It also gives tips, based on statistics about how people respond to ads and online dating. Using data from the hard (instead of theories like the other sites) on a Web site can explain why some dating techniques work and others do not.


Last year, we ruffled a few feathers when we posted some OKCupid data on dating and race. We're sure this latest news is going to be equally unpopular, but the data support the conclusions, so here we go.

Women users of the online dating site state a range of preferred ages for partners that is relatively normal, and when it comes to reaching out to other users, they stay pretty strictly within their own self-imposed guidelines. However, men on the site continue to state a preference for 20-something girls well into their later years. And even when male users state a cut-off age, they continue to contact women who are below that age.
Culture of sexual exploitation or personal preference? Check out the graphs below and let us know what you think in the comments.

For starters, OKCupid's blog states, "Men between 22 and 30 - nearly two-thirds of the male dating pool - focus almost exclusively on women younger than themselves... A man, as he gets older, searches for relatively younger and younger women. Meanwhile his upper acceptable limit hovers only a token amount above his own age."

Here's what that looks like in a graph format: