The number crunchers over at dating site OKCupid put together a highly entertaining blog post showing the breakdown of interests people listed in their dating profiles. The results are FASCINATING.
Here are the White Guys:
And the White Ladies:
We selected 526,000 OkCupid users at random and divided them into groups by their (self-stated) race. We then took all these people’s profile essays (280 million words in total!) and isolated the words and phrases that made each racial group’s essays statistically distinct from the others’.
Check out the full article to see the top professed interests of Black, Asian, Hispanic, Indian, Arabic, and Asian Pacific Islanders looking for love online. I say professed because aren’t we all on our best behavior when we’re on the hunt? Do white guys really love Phish or do they simply want to be seen as the kind of guy who likes Phish by prospective dating partners.
And what precisely does that represent culturally? Laid back? High? Unshaven? DISCUSS
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i like waffles.
What if you’re bi-racial???
Then you head back to the ski-lodge for some watermelon and fried chicken.
LOL
Wow. Apparently I’m a white male. You think I’ld get more messages given the number of interests I apparently share with the Y gene carriers…
I like more stuff of the boys’ list too. The only things I like of the ladies’ list is my red hair and I kind of like yoga. (I enjoyed DMB when I was in high school, but I haven’t listened to them in years.)
this, my dear friend. is called stereotyping.
Actually – it’s statistics! Unless people are sterotyping themselves when filling out their OK Cupid profiles?
It’s stereotyping when you apply the list from a group to an individual member of the group.
Did I miss the part where somebody did that?
Try reading.
megadeth?
) whoa!
The problem with most of these groups of words is the context (the reference to “The Red Sox” could actually have been “I hate the Red Sox” OR “I LOVE the Red Sox”. The only ones that don’t have that context issue is the “I’m a country boy.” and “I’m a country girl.” Of course, these two statements clearly tell me why I shall avoid going onto this OKCupid site… YUK!
I think it’s interesting so many SWFs have such passionate feelings about baseball let alone a specific team for it to gain the biggest boldest print. And all the white people are big into Nascar. I don’t know a single nascar fan in life.
And not that many brunettes, apparently…or at least nobody who’s admitting to it.
Also, I’d love to see how queer women/men look on this. Not that I think that they are a race, but I do think the interests would be far different. I see “Jodi Picoult” and “Nora Ephron” and very few queer women’s profiles (if on any). “Nicholas Sparks” also doesn’t make the cut (unless you include the ones who say, “I HATE Nicholas Sparks”).
Does OKCupid actually service the GLBT community?
Clearly you haven’t been there. ^_^
Which would be why I asked the question. As I said above, I have no intention of EVER going there if most of the men (albeit WHITE men, according to the above info) say things like “I am a country boy.” I reiterate: “YUK!” (holding down retching).
I find that it’s easier than these stats make it seem to meet people on the okc. I’m a bit disenchanted at the moment, but I think that it’s always worth a try. Look at some profiles, meet some cool people. Not every boy on there thinks they are a country boy.
Hmm… OKCupid… OKlahoma City….
Keep in mind that they didn’t scan all the profiles, and that just because it’s a large percentage of the ones they did scan, it doesn’t mean they’re all that way. It’s very possible you’d get the same percentages on other dating websites, but OKCupid is free.
I haven’t used it in ages but it seemed decent enough at the time. I only used it for the funny tests, but I met some very good friends through it.
Hahaha.
I’ve met quite a few potential (queer) matches through there, and my last girlfriend was also from okcupid. Sometimes I forget that it services the heterosexual community.
I guess I’m a brother, because I only counted three things on the list that I like.
I’m a white male and I don’t like any of those…
I guess I suck at being my race and my gender.
That’s okay, I’m a white female and the only thing on that list that I like is thunderstorms. Based on the other lists, apparently I’m mostly an asian man.
Actually, looking at it again there are at least half a dozen things on the white men’s list that I like, too (but there are also a lot of things there that I hate, and I am definitely NOT a country anything. *shudder*)
I like almost everything on the Latino list…ESPECIALLY Merengue, Salsa, Bachata, and COLOMBIAN!
(White Female) I didn’t even like HALF the stuff I was statistically supposed to like. I liked boating, Ireland (I guess, I don’t HATE the Irish, or their country), horseback riding (even though I’ve only done it two or three times in my life), bonfires, decorating, getting dressed up, baths, horses (again haven’t really been around then but they are both terrifying and can snap my back if they so desire and bizarrely adorable in a hellish goat monster kind of a way), cookbooks, flip-flops, thunderstorms, mom, yoga, my toes, animal lover, and baking. :3
Hmmmm, I guess the doctor was wrong and I am a guy! Geez, I don’t like any of the white women’s’ things.
Neither do I…especially diet coke.
Phish and Heinlein FTW!!!
Together they are better than sex (I think that it is evident from this comment that I am not a man)
Heinlein and Hitchhiker’s for me
Though surprised to see both on the list… I guess my demographics (20 year old SoCal residents) just don’t read anything good and everyone else that I don’t know, does xP
I like turtles.
wow….im a white female…and i HATE almost everything on both lists >_< apparently im not good enough to be any gender for white people :l it seems like most everyone who did the survey thingy or wat ever the hell it is…are rednecks…cuz who else would say they are a country boy/girl AND say they like nascar…seriously..
I love that Zappa is in the white males list.
I guess I’m a white man trapped in a black woman’s 39-year old body.
Folks, keep in mind that the point isn’t to say it’s true for everyone but that it’s the most common percentage wise. The user base at a dating site is probably going to be different than the user base at a site with funny graphs.
Protestants… we don’t bother with this world, cause up here *points to head* we’re already gone.
lol i agree with most of the Latino list! ESPECIALLY COLOMBIAN!!!! Im a good latino by the looks of it…and my sisters good latinas =P
…Who on earth answered something with ‘my toes’..?
Wow what the hell? Stealing content off another site and slapping your own logo on the bottom is ok now?
Oh wait its the cheezburger network.
Carry on with your thievery.
Surprisingly a lot of punk bands on the first one. I would of expected more stuff like AC/DC.
Well, at least I don’t see Twilight anywhere on the lists.
Latinas, first item in the twelfth row.
this should be renamed “what rednecks like”
I hate most of these things
Woohoo, the Queens of the Stone Age are on the list, screw everything else and put them on top!
After seeing that website I wonder if I’m white. lol. I don’t like these things i don’t even know what most of them are.
f**k yeah, michael chricton!
Fine. I get that it’s not _all_ white guys; it’s the most common things _among_ white guys.
I haven’t been this embarrassed to be white since the Backstreet Boys got a record deal…..
NOFX, Dropkick Murphys, Bad Religion, Tenacious D and the Offspring…niiiice
I’m way more like the guy than the girl.
I hate country music, and there are pretty awesome bands listed in the guy’s profile thing.
wow. the female, to me, is waay off.
Oh man. I like basically every thing on the “guy” list. And I’m a girl. ahahaha