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Related: About this forumSurprise, Surprise: Climate Denial A Leading Cause Of Rejection In Online Dating Apps
In 2018, Washingtonian magazine reported on young D.C. conservatives who found that working in the Trump White House or for right-wing media outlets were dating-app dealbreakers. A 2017 piece in The Federalist argued that dating sites that allow for associative mating also known as selecting partners with interests and beliefs in common were in fact the reason Trump was elected in the first place. The New York Timess Ross Douthat applauded the British economist Robin Hanson for advocating the redistribution of sex as a remedy for the murderous misogyny of incels.
The newest entry in this pantheon of conservative lonely hearts comes from Eric Kaufmann, whose piece this week in the National Review, Political Discrimination as Civil-Rights Struggle, argues that college womens disinterest in dating Trump supporters doesnt just hurt their feelings, but is in fact discrimination. This, Kaufmann maintains, is evidence of a progressive authoritarianism thats compelling young elite Americans to be turned off by conservatives resistance to racial, gender, and sexual progressivism.
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Meanwhile, among 6 million users surveyed over the past three years, 81 percent of daters said they were concerned about climate change topping other potential dealbreaker issues like gender equality and gun control. We have just seen over time, climate change being more and more this huge topic for our millennials daters especially, Jane Reynolds, director of product marketing at OKCupid, told The Hill. People feel that with climate change, it says so much more about you if thats something that you believe in and are concerned about.
OKCupids dating app employs a matchmaking algorithm that asks users a variety of multiple-choice questions on everything from the mundane to current events issues, according to the company. One of our questions is, Cilantro, yes or no? Reynolds said, noting that while such a question can be a good conversation starter, it wont usually make or break whether a user decides to date a potential match. The network has thousands of questions that feed into this algorithm, with new queries popping up each week, Reynolds explained.
Data scientists at OKCupid also cross-reference responses to determine how users who react a certain way to one question might answer other questions, according to Reynolds. Such knowledge, she said, can help reveal to daters what else they might learn about a potential match just by knowing one thing about the person.
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Looking at other top dating dealbreakers for OKCupid users, the data scientists found that 76 percent of 650,000 worldwide daters said that their partners must support gender equality over the past year. Meanwhile, 66 percent of 2 million U.S.-based daters said that they were in favor of stricter gun control laws over the past three years. The data scientists at OKCupid also found that of 2.2 million users surveyed over the past five years, there has been a 400 percent increase in the likelihood that climate-conscious individuals identify as feminists and a 37 percent rise in profile likes for people concerned about climate change. In addition, they observed that only 7 percent of daters reported that they rarely or never recycle.
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https://climatecrocks.com/2022/03/11/coal-rollers-need-love-too-dating-app-reveals-climate-denial-is-biggest-dating-dealbreaker/
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(1,160 posts)Yes, with the exclamation point.