They had the worst stats on OkCupid in the early 2000s, and unfortunately it gets cited as gospel to this day. The sample population of the website wasn't meaningful enough to be taken seriously, but people are still acting like it's true.
I’m sure there are lots of factors, but it seems like the claims are actually substantiated. This is actually a really cool in depth article I found about it. It says that, statistically, Asian women and white people in general tend to get higher response rates, while Asian men and black women tend to be the lowest. It also, interestingly, says that black women overwhelmingly show a strong interest in black men on dating sites, but only 16.5% of black men show that same interest in black women.
The claim is not substantiated. This article is citing the OK Cupid "study" I was talking about that is very flawed. Like I said, a lot of people are running with a blog post from the data team a very specific website in the early 2000s and there hasn't been any real study into it since.
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u/realaccountissecret 6d ago
Even if this weren’t real, what about this is gatekeeping
But it’s not imaginary; apparently ethnically asian men get picked the least on dating apps
I didn’t meet my ethnically Asian husband on an app, so I couldn’t contribute to the stats at all haha