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According to 'Searching for a Mate: The Rise of the Internet as a Social Intermediary' (2010) http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0003122412448050 http:
by rovolo 9y ago
According to 'Searching for a Mate: The
Rise of the Internet as a Social
Intermediary' (2010) http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0003122412448050 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0003122412448050 , around 10% of (hetero) couples met at work as of 2010, down from a peak of 20% in 1990. It is the fourth most common method behind friends, bars, and online.
Just the graph: https://cdn.technologyreview.com/i/images/internet-dating.png https://cdn.technologyreview.com/i/images/internet-dating.pn...
- kbenson 9y agoI figured it was probably sub 20%. 10% is still quite high, in my eyes.
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- xapata 9y agoThere's some overlap, as one can be friends with coworkers and go to bars with them.
- rovolo 9y agoThe paper aims to categorize how people met rather than how their relationship developed. This is how they describe their criteria for categorizing relationships (the paper is focused on internet dating, but the same criteria would be used for coworkers): >By meeting online, or meeting through the Internet, we mean that a couple’s relationship began with an online interaction and then developed into a personal and physical relationship. We coded couples as having met online only if the online interaction was crucial to their having met, regardless of how the couple communicated once they had met. … If the couple first met decades earlier, fell out of touch, and then rediscovered each other through Facebook, that would be “meeting online” for our purposes. Based on my reading of their criteria, the relationship would be categorized as 'coworker' if they either knew the person at work prior to visiting the bar, they were introduced at the bar through a coworker, or a work event took place at a bar.