Online Dating Survey
The recent survey Christian121 undertook wanted to find out what information people wanted to be able to find (and filter for) in a dating website.
We listed a few attributes that we thought people would like to be able to search for. In particular, we were interested to see if there were any differences between what men and women wanted to see the most. For example, just over 60% of men thought that searching by denomination was either very important or important whereas, just under 40% of women thought so, most women were indifferent to denomination, and about the same percentage thought it was not important or not important at all.
We also wanted to know what kind of geographic space folk wanted to be able to filter for, so we asked whether people wanted to be able to search by miles, city, or region. Roughly 60% of women said that all three options were very important or important. Men were more interested in being able to filter by region, with nearly 90% saying it was very important or important.
When it came to the social attributes of income and work status we found some interesting differences: 16% of women wanted to be able to filter by income, but not one male respondent said it was very important or important, with 81% saying it was not important or not important at all, compared with 40% of women. We see a similar divergence with work status where 13% of men thought it was very important or important, but 37% of women thought it was important or very important.
We noted that in some of the comments respondents left, women also wanted to be able to know about daters’ church status – leadership roles within church. One male respondent said that instead of income he wanted to filter by intellect.
Survey Data
Conclusions
I don’t have any statistics for it, but I think it’s probably fair to say that most websites are designed by men. For me it was interesting to be reminded that men and women want different things from a website, especially, it would seem, from a dating site. I rather suspect that as far as income goes, it isn’t so much that men aren’t interested in filtering by income and status than they don’t want to be filtered by income and status – or is that just me!?
The questions we asked only skimmed the surface, some of the comments people wrote highlighted some other things daters are interested to see in a dating site. We’d love to hear what you think.
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