Couples who meet on dating apps are more likely to divorce (2021)
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Some of their other research: "Rock and rollers twice as likely to divorce" https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/rock-n-rollers-tw...
Hopefully next they will look into the impact the Devil's Lettuce has on marriage; or Harry Potter.
Yes, church groups are probably going to be a bit more 'pro-marriage' than some others. I guess the 'anti-marriage' people?
And?
Everything in the press is presented by someone with some perspective they want to highlight.
And the link you referred us to states probably what to most of us a bit obvious - that celebrities divorce more often - but which is thoughtful to have in numbers.
And?
So, what specifically is wrong with the study in question?
Because I think it seems helpful.
I buy that online dating may not be quite as effective at forming 'long term relationships' as otherwise, and that it might be worth looking at in more detail. It could maybe be a matter of 'distance relationships'. Or possibly those individuals may have been less likely to be married in the first place?
I'll wager 5x more people are going to be interested in this issue than 'crypto currency' for example.
This older survey similarly has them playing fast and loose with the statistics to get a flashy headline. In their own data it's clear that online dating has cannibalized dating at bars, and shares a near identical divorce rate - 20% vs 19%. In other words the survey is a nothingburger. All it shows is a shift in dating channels. But that's not the headline they pushed.
If their clickbait strategy isn't clear to you yet, don't take it from me. They claim this is their goal on their own website: "Time and again our research department has injected reality and hard evidence into this debate with eye catching research which the media have broadcast."
Since most, even 'respected' journalism is a bit clickbaity, this is well within normative editorialization.
Hence the likely bigotry on the part of people ventilating about the origin of the data.
Something tells me that these controls weren’t enough to account for differences between the populations that use online dating platforms and those that are less likely to.
> But after overcoming the first few rocky years that many marriages experience, the way couples initially met doesn't make much of a difference — at the workplace, online, at a bar or through family all have divorce rates hovering around 20%.
And this perhaps bolsters my first point.. perhaps it’s a good thing that the marriages end faster.
The bigger difference between us and "online dating" was that we met playing a game - doing a shared activity. Everyone, online or not, is a stranger at some point.
My first thought. When your support networks/social networks are intertwined there’s a big disincentive to split up, knowing it’s going to have a big and possibly damaging impact well beyond just splitting with a partner.
Also - bringing your families and friends together may add more friction if you wouldn’t have met offline.
1) online dating is more goal orientated. You are looking for a potential mate, possibly because (certainly years ago when these (ex) couples met) they feel the biological clock ticking and want to settle down have kids etc. So potentially these people are rushing into marriage quicker than say two people that met at uni?
2) background. My current partner and I met online. We have extremely different backgrounds[1]. If you meet someone irl, you probably share a job, an education, a hobby. You are likely to have more in common, and a similar cultural grounding.
[1]Shes Spanish, so maybe I'm extrapolating too much from that.
Just want to say that the linked pdf is not a study, it’s a survey.