Engineering love at first match. Find the one you'll marry.
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Finding someone to marry is harder than ever.
We used to marry for practical reasons and grow into love. Now we hold out for a soulmate.
That’s good! Marriages today are much happier. But soulmates are extraordinarily rare, and too many people are struggling to find theirs.
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Women’s profile photos show skin nearly five times as often as men’s.
Across a sample of 23,784 women’s and 16,274 men’s photos on Keeper, 38.3% of women’s were labeled as showing physical features like midriff or exposed skin vs 8.0% of men’s.
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Women flip from career to family harder and later than men do.
Among women on Keeper, career leads 51% to 23% at 18-20. By 28-30, family leads 47% to 26%. Men cross over by their mid-20s.
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The worst-rated men’s photos skew hard toward selfies and glasses.
On Keeper, 49% of the bottom 100 are selfies vs 14% of the top 100. Glasses: 28% vs 6%.
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The top-rated women’s photos on Keeper smile less than the bottom ones: 55% vs 72%.
More have their hair worn down too, and no sunglasses.
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Women bring up a partner’s job stability three times as often as men do.
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Men rate blonde women highest, while women rate brunette men highest.
Women with lighter hair rated light brown hair higher, and women with darker hair preferred dark brown.
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Marriage is finding someone you love so much that you invite the church and the state to stop you from being an asshole later.
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Ever divorced or separated, among American men who've married:
All men: 38%
College grads: 29%
College grads who grew up with both parents: 27%
...and go to church every week: 24%
No degree, didn't grow up with both parents, almost never go to church: 53%
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The shortest 10% of men marry at an 18% lower rate, but once married, they’re 32% less likely to split up than average-height men.
Study: nber.org/papers/w20402
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"I'm waiting until I have everything figured out before I get married."
You’ll be a beautiful bride at 94.
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When applying to college got easy, students applied to more schools, acceptance rates fell, and students applied to even more.
Swipe apps cause the same effect.
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Until the Industrial Revolution, marriage was also a business. Husband and wife ran the farm or the shop together.
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In North Carolina, you can still sue the person your spouse cheated with.
In 2018, a man there won $8.8 million from his wife’s lover.
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Bring it, boys @signulll @WestsideLAGuy
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"Marry someone with self-control and a sense of justice, have both yourself, then spend the marriage trying to out-devote each other." - Musonius Rufus, Roman Stoic, 1st century AD (paraphrased)
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A bar in Tokyo was losing money so they rebranded as a "marriage-hunting bar" without changing anything else. They were soon packed.
This is basically how Hinge competed with Tinder.
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The last civil war widow died in 2008. In 1934, 19-year-old Maudie Hopkins married William Cantrell, an 86-year-old Confederate veteran whose house she'd been cleaning, after he offered to leave her his home and land.
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Nearly half of women want their partner to initiate sex more often than they do. Fewer than 1 in 5 men feel the same.
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