Often it appears like there are other individuals saying are specialists on matchmaking than you’ll find genuine men and women dating.

(Do we go with that classification? You should not respond to that. Let me preserve my personal illusions of effectiveness.)

Many of them are probably cheats creating circumstances up or regurgitating exhausted guidance they study in Cosmo, just a few – a particular few – tend to be real experts which need their expert status. And couple of fit that explanation better than Christian Rudder, the data whiz behind OkCupid’s famous OkTrends blog and present composer of an item in The Guardian.

« You will find led OkCupid’s analytics team since 2009, and my personal task is always to add up of information our very own users create, » Rudder produces. « As folks bring technologies deeper and further within their resides, it may show us profound and ridiculous reasons for exactly who we have been as people. »

Anybody else enjoying the sound of « profound and absurd » as much as I am? I need to understand: what precisely really does OkCupid realize we normal people you shouldn’t? Rudder had been sort sufficient to supply several examples:

• Black guys: dreads, Jill Scott, Haitian, soca, neo spirit
• Latino guys: Colombian, salsa merengue, cumbia, la, merengue bachata
• Asian guys: large for an Asian, Asians, Taiwanese, Taiwan, Cantonese

For lots more dating secrets from OkCupid’s resident information expert, stay tuned for role II and look for Dataclysm: whom we’re (As soon as we believe nobody’s Looking).