What I learnt after going through thousands of dating profiles. (Update to Reddit Matchmaking)
I am OP of r/RedditMatchIndia where basically I set up a form where people write about themselves and what they are looking for and hopefully they might someone through it. I hope atleast a few people found a partner or a friend.
Another aspect I really wanted to do this was to crunch and curate the data to bring out anything interesting from the Indian Dating World. So, here are the stats!
The ratio was quite skewed against men and while I did try spreading the form how much ever I could, this was still the best I could get. There were a few Non-Binary people too.
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City Ratio of people. The highest being Hyder-baddies.
Here is the detailed list of responses from each city. The highest being Hyder-baddies.
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Related to smoking/drinking:
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Here are the responses exclusively for men and women:
Women:
Women overwhelmingly wanted someone taller than them.
Most women (181) prefer taller partners, followed by no preference (61), and around their height (16). None wanted shorter.
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Most common is no preference (139), followed by muscular (64), lean (52), and skinny (3)
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Majority (191) have no preference, followed by medium (41), fair (25), and dusky (1)
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This is what women wanted in a relationship:
- Long-Term Relationship dominates at 37.4%
- Platonic Friendship + Long-Term Relationship follows at 23%
- Pure Platonic Friendship at 9.4%
- Platonic Friendship + Casual + Long-Term at 7.6%
- Platonic Friendship + Casual at 6.1%
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Age Gap women were comfortable with:
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Most common dealbreakers for women:
Men:
On the whole, unlike women, men have far fewer physical preferences.
Relationship preferences of men:
- Long-Term Relationship: 2004 responses (34.7%)
- Casual Relationships: 1657 responses (28.69%)
- Platonic Friendship: 1105 responses (19.13%)
- Friends with Benefits/No-Strings Attached: 978 responses (16.94%)
- Other responses (e.g., unique or rare answers): 31 responses (0.54%)
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Most common dealbreakers for men:
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Age preferences
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Lastly, here were the age demographics of the respondents.
This correlates quite well with the average age of marriage for both men and women as around that age, the number of respondents dropped significantly. Imgur link because you can't add more than 20 photos on reddit.
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Here is the backup link to all graphs and charts, incase anything doesn't load up
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PS: There were queer people who filled the form but they were a negligible population and extrapolating their data would have been futile. If there any other interesting data point you feel we can extrapolate from the form, let me know!