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Really interesting to try and think through what led to these trends. "Met through friends" took an absolute nosedive, but at the same time, "met in bars and r
by CobrastanJorji 3y ago
Really interesting to try and think through what led to these trends.
"Met through friends" took an absolute nosedive, but at the same time, "met in bars and restaurants" has been steadily growing for the last 20 years. Why? Perhaps many of those are actually people who meet online but are embarrassed about it and choose "met in a bar" because it sounds better in some way?
It's probably a good thing that "meet as coworkers" has been on a decline.
Also, given that these surveys,
HCMST 2009 and 2017, were internet surveys, using subjects who were regular internet survey subjects in an established panel, I wonder if it is perhaps biased towards users who are very comfortable using the internet.
- jprete 3y agoIf I had to explain the bar-and-restaurant figure, I would guess that all the methods that are growing (the bar scene and then Internet dating scene) privilege physical attraction over other factors.
- jyunwai 3y agoThese are all good points. For the last one, there is a separate study by Pew Research Center conducted in 2022 (reported in 2023), which likely reduces this bias by recruiting respondents by sending physical mail "to a stratified, random sample of households" that invites them to complete an online survey: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findings-about-online-dating-in-the-u-s/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findi... Pew's results were different than the findings by Rosenfeld et al.: while 53% of people aged 18–29 in the US "have ever used a dating site or app," only 20% of partnered people aged 18–29 reportedly met their current partner "on a dating site or app" (I've also made a similar comment elsewhere in this discussion).