What does this mean? Generally speaking, an average straight man will have to send 25 messages to women his own age procure one response, while the average straight woman will have to send 5 messages.
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That's fascinating, and also could be an explanation — men sending a lot more messages than women — for the disparity.
An average man who sends 18 messages to women his own age can be 50% certain he'll receive at least one response. For women, they need to send only 5 messages to be 50% certain they'll get a response.
Looking at higher confidence levels, if a woman wants to be 90% certain she'll receive a response from a man her own age, she'll have to send 13 messages. A man will have to send 58 messages.
Finally, to be 99% certain she'll receive a response, a woman must send 25 messages to men her own age.
A man will have to send 114 .
This leads us to believe that one potential cause of the disparity between the male response rate and female response rate is the system itself.
If men must spam women with messages in order to elicit a response, then women will be more selective when responding to the surplus in general. Since women are understandably disinclined to respond to all the messages, men must send out more in order to guarantee any response. It's cyclic.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/online-dating-message-statistics-2013-7#ixzz2ZKcaDNex
But also let's look at what other conclusions we can draw.
- Straight dudes' best bet is to just pursue the Mrs. Robinson situation. There's an 8-10% likelihood a woman 10-8 years your senior will respond to a message, double the rate for your own peers.
- Ladies, there's at worst a 1 in 6 chance any man will respond to your message regardless of your age, so just go for it. Rob a cradle or raid a grave, it really doesn't matter to men.
- For men of a certain age: The New York Jets have better odds of going to the Superbowl this year than you do of getting a response to a message sent to someone ten years your junior.
Happy hunting.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/likelihood-of-getting-a-response-in-online-dating-men-vs-women-2013-7#ixzz2ZKY6fJw4
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And if your ugly it will be called stalking after the second message, if you are really really really good looking like zoolander it is called happy hunting even after 114+1000 messages, for any bias reason.
