{"id":10514,"date":"2014-02-20T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10514"},"modified":"2014-02-19T23:06:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T04:06:24","slug":"numbers-regarding-online-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/numbers-regarding-online-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers Regarding Online Dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10515\" alt=\"online dating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/online-dating-1024x723.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/online-dating-1024x723.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/online-dating-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/online-dating.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Freakonomics economists had a look at some of the facts and stats behind online dating:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looks matter, no surprises there. According to the OkCupid blog, &#8220;A hot woman receives roughly four times the messages an average-looking woman gets and 25 times as many as an ugly one.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Men have a &#8216;superstar effect&#8217;. The hottest 5% of men receive twice as many messages as those just below them (the second-hottest 5%)<\/li>\n<li>All other things being equal, a man making $250,000 a year is contacted two and a half times as often as a man who earns $50,000.<\/li>\n<li>Looks matter much more than weight; two people of comparable looks receive the same number of messages regardless of body size.<\/li>\n<li>A study form the university of Chicago found that in the real world, relationships where the man earns less than the woman tend to be less stable and happy<\/li>\n<li>The more details you fill in, the better. If you have children, to some people this is a game changer. So best to be up front about it now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more details, including what happened when a young lady started putting racist information on her dating profile and why New York is good for straight men, check out their podcast (<a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.com\/2014\/02\/06\/what-you-dont-know-about-online-dating-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast\/\">audio<\/a>) or (<a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.com\/2014\/02\/05\/what-you-dont-know-about-online-dating-full-transcript-2\/\">text<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.com\/2014\/02\/06\/what-you-dont-know-about-online-dating-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Freakonomics economists had a look at some of the facts and stats behind online dating: Looks matter, no surprises there. According to the OkCupid blog, &#8220;A hot woman receives roughly four times the messages an average-looking woman gets and 25 times as many as an ugly one.\u201d Men have a &#8216;superstar effect&#8217;. The hottest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/online-dating.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10516,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions\/10516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}