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Re:The toll of dating app burnout by Cpoll on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:10PM (#32683244)
> Mathematically speaking it's impossible.

Only if you assume the "dating pool" is 1:1 men/women. If you take the view that it's 10:1 men/women then that conclusion is "obvious."

And at least in the context of Tinder, I have read that the ratio of users leans men.

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Re:The toll of dating app burnout by Bubble_Pop_22 on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:13PM (#32683286)
It's always 1:1. Dating implies 1:1 dinner.

Rappers, actors and people who feel the need to bring 5 or 6 girls on a date, that's so rare that doesn't even merit counting. And also it ends up pretty quick.

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Re:The toll of dating app burnout by david38 on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:20PM (#32683379)
It doesn't. It hasn't for some years.

Dinner is no longer a requirement. Being exclusive is no longer the assumed default.

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Re:The toll of dating app burnout by Cpoll on Friday September 02, 2022 @03:36PM (#32694912)
No, I mean the population of the "dating pool." For example, if a "dating pool" consists of 10 men and 1 woman, and the woman enters into a monogamous relationship with one of the men, we can say that "the top 10% of men of this dating pool are dating 100% of the women."
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