Often it may seem like there are many individuals claiming getting professionals on online dating than you will find actual folks matchmaking.

(Do I squeeze into that category? Do not respond to that. Let me retain my illusions of effectiveness.)

A lot of them are most likely hacks making circumstances right up or regurgitating tired advice they browse in Cosmo, just a few – a special few – tend to be authentic experts just who have earned their guru condition. And couple of match that description a lot better than Christian Rudder, the information whiz behind OkCupid’s popular OkTrends web log and current composer of an item in The Guardian.

“You will find directed OkCupid’s statistics team since 2009, and my personal job is always to seem sensible in the information our people create,” Rudder produces. “As individuals bring innovation further and further in their lives, could indicate to us serious and ridiculous aspects of which the audience is as people.”

Anybody else enjoying the audio of “profound and absurd” as far as I am? I need to understand: what does OkCupid realize that we normal folks cannot? Rudder was actually sort adequate to offer a number of examples:

• Black men: dreads, Jill Scott, Haitian, soca, neo heart
• Latino guys: Colombian, salsa merengue, cumbia, la, merengue bachata
• Asian men: high for an Asian, Asians, Taiwanese, Taiwan, Cantonese

For much more dating ways from OkCupid’s resident data expert, stay tuned in for Part II to check out Dataclysm: Who we have been (once we believe No One’s searching).