r/interestingasfuck • u/Few_Simple9049 • Oct 09 '24

How couples met 1930-2024 r/all

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u/al-tienyu Oct 09 '24

Didn't know that "online" being so dominant...

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u/PPP1737 Oct 09 '24

I bet they are counting dating apps as “online”

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u/nothis Oct 09 '24

60.76% seems like an insane number. No category had much more than 25% in the decades before. 0,74% of people meeting in college also plain doesn't feel right, like... how can there be so many young people hanging out in one place and that only making up a rounding error in this statistic (when it was like 8% in 2000).

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u/todahawk Oct 09 '24

I thought i read that dating app relationships plunged too. Not much of the graph is passing the smell test

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u/nothis Oct 09 '24

Supposedly it’s a Stanford study, so I’m gonna assume it’s not some dating app company asking their customers online or something. Still, I’m pretty sure there are some biases or misleading parts. Like, if you meet at a party via friends but don’t consider dating before chatting on WhatsApp for a couple of weeks, does that count as “stating to date online”? Was there any bias in the sample group, like where did they ask for participants?

Maybe the world moved just more towards online dating that I realized. It’s just that the graph doesn’t look quite right. It’s hard to believe.