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February 9, 2011

Dating Site Calculates The Best First Date Questions

Well this is pretty awesome. Researchers at OkCupid waded through 776 million matches of questions and answers between would-be-couples, and matched those against relationships success rates - and come up with some bizarre, awesome data. Apparently beer drinkers put out more.

Well this is pretty awesome. Researchers at OkCupid waded through 776 million matches of questions and answers between would-be-couples, and matched those against relationships success rates – and come up with some bizarre, awesome data. Apparently beer drinkers put out more.

But seriously! People who answered ‘yes’ to the question ‘do you like the taste of beer’ were 60% more likely to have sex on the first date.

Along the same lines, people who had matching answers about horror movies, global travels, and the prospect of living on a sailboat, were most likely to have long-term connections.

There’s a lot more data on the OkCupid blog, but I didn’t want to throw too many diagrams at you guys on a Wednesday morning. You kids go have fun.
Beer drinkers, call me.

[OkCupid]