4 Reactions to Structure of Online Dating Markets in U.S. Cities

  1. Fernando Ardenghi April 2, 2019 at 1:58 pm #

    “The data used as the starting point for our study come from one of the largest free dating sites in the United States and were collected in July 2014.”

    It seems the study is quite old and done using an online dating site offering a search engine, not a compatibility matching method based on personality like eHarmony and copycats.

    Regards, Fernando Ardenghi

    • PJS May 5, 2019 at 4:24 pm #

      What is your point regarding the scientific merit of this article? You raised an issue but with no elaboration as to how that issue matters. You must know how difficult it is to gain access to the data from any of dating site or app. This is pioneering work.

  2. Fred Welfare July 31, 2019 at 8:09 pm #

    There are several problems within this article which reflect the deep problems, the hypostasis, of online dating. The main assumption in this article is that assortation promotes open dating, it does not. Assortation is a constraint on dating; dating up or down on demographic variables like socio-economic class, age differences, racial and religious factors, and sexual orientations is constrained. In fact, these factors are often not even given causing deep ambiguity on member profiles.

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