The Real Stuff Black People Like ( and White people, and Asians, etc.)

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http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-people-like/

the article is actually titled The Real Stuff White People Like

This is an analysis by the dating site OKCupid on the differences in members on this site by race, and by other categories, in the number of times certain things are spoken about in the dating profiles. It is a pretty amusing little article.

Hopefully it's been obvious that the font-size of a phrase indicates the relative frequency with which it appears. So, toggling between black men and black women above, you can see that while soul food is important to both, but it's really, really important to the women. In fact, soul food and black women is the single strongest phrase/group pair we found.

The above lists also make it clear that, regardless of whether Jesus himself was black, his most vocal followers definitely are. Religious expressions weren't among the top phrases for any of the other races, but they're all over the place for black men and (especially) black women, for whom 13 of the top 50 phrases are religious. Black people are more than twice as likely than average to mention their faith in their profiles.

Finally, it's worth noting that of the four lists we've seen so far, black women's is the only one to explicitly include someone of another race: Justin Timberlake.

Double finally, how bold is it that I am cool is the second most typical phrase for black men?

Actually, the comment about Timberlake is not true, because Asian women in this list Alicia Keys as someone they like in their profiles.