They critique this post by saying things like "self reported" and based on 27 people.
The problem that it matches the data that has 50,000,000 ratings from OkCupid (who were being watched without the vast majority of them realizing it). Several years later, Tinder comes out with the same data again using a completely different method. OkCupid used a star method on the profile page. Only later did OkCupid switch to the common swiping system we see today. So Tinder corroborated the OkCupid data in a different way. The non hookup "serious" dating site match.com has the exact same data too.
Christain Rudder found he needed only 25 votes to predict where you would come on the ratings scale. (Based on his 50 million ratings)
"are within a half point of each other for 92% of the sample after just 25 votes (and that percentage approaches 100% as vote totals get higher). " https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/weexperimentonhumanbeings.html
So don't listen to their "it's only 27 people and self reported" unsound argument.
All the math there agrees with the larger picture among the vast majority of the data about the single people in the United States.
This statistics are unassailable and the biggest picture into what people are doing and not what they are saying.
One user commented about stalkers and how men swipe right on everyone so they have to be more discerning. Funny how their "discerning" is always into Chad's favor. They discern only a Chad can't be a stalker so that's why they swipe right on him and don't give you a chance. He is only the one worth taking the chance on.
On OkCupid, there was no system of swiping (before Tinder did it), so men couldn't swipe right on everyone and the data still matched.
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