Faruk At.eş


How Races and Religions Match in Online Dating

OKCupid releases a wealth of research data about compatibility between race and religion in online dating. Some very interesting results:

Since he’s a Pisces and I’m a Virgo, Chris and I of course think the Zodiac is total bullshit, and it was very gratifying to have the data bear this out. Here are the grouped match percentages for a random pool of 500,000 users. Astrological sign has no effect whatsoever on how compatible two people are.

They have a follow-up report that's worth checking out as well: Your Race Affects Whether People Write You Back.

(via Andy Baio)


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Faruk Ateş

Faruk Ateş does creative things on the Web, like Modernizr. He lives in San Francisco and writes and speaks about technology, design and business.

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