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A comment on Never Pay for Online Dating (2010). Parent comment

Re:Never Pay for Online Dating (2010) by pcbro141 on Monday April 26, 2021 @02:33PM (#26946170)
This Stanford study (2017) says 39% of hetero couples meet online today. Wow, that's really high if true: https://www.statista.com/chart/20822/way-of-meeting-partner-...
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Re:Never Pay for Online Dating (2010) by dvfjsdhgfv on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:47PM (#26948641)
"Online" is not equivalent to using a dating app.
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Re:Never Pay for Online Dating (2010) by throwaway0a5e on Monday April 26, 2021 @02:44PM (#26946342)
Waste enough time flinging pigeons at the wall and eventually they all end up in holes.

If everyone spends a stupid amount of time with online dating then that's where a lot of the matches are gonna be even if it's not an efficient way to get that end result.

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Re:Never Pay for Online Dating (2010) by EForEndeavour on Monday April 26, 2021 @04:17PM (#26947514)
How do you measure efficiency? Isn't "eventually leads to significant other" a relevant metric?

If couples are finding each other online more than they are elsewhere, then online matchmaking is outperforming offline channels.

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