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Statistics derived from Facebook dating app Are You Interested (AYI) have revealed as to how many people responded with a "yes" on the basis of one's gender and ethnicity.
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The dating application, which works like popular dating app Tinder, allows users to skim over users' profiles and respond to each with either a "yes" or "skip".
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The illustration depicts the percentage of users who responded with a “yes” in accordance to the sex and race of both parties in question. The data reveals that women of Asian descent responded favourably to white men more than those of any other race. On the other hand, white men responded to black women less often than they did to white, Latino or Asian women.
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Moreover, the data also revealed that men in general responded to women three times more often as women to them. The data also concluded that male users generally opted to date racial groups other than their own.
This article originally appeared on Quartz.
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