Title: 7 (Surprising) Online Dating Race Statistics
Headings: 7 Surprising Online Dating Race Statistics
7 Surprising Online Dating Race Statistics
1. White Men and Asian Women Have the Highest Response Rates
2. Black Men and Women Have the Lowest Response Rates
3. Most Men Prefer Asian Women, Except Asian Men
4. Most Women Prefer White Men, Except Black Women
5. Only 10% of People Would Date Someone With a Vocal Racial Bias
6. 35% of People Strongly Prefer to Date Within Their Own Race
7. Less Than 4% of People Think Interracial Marriage is a Bad Idea
On Dating Sites, Your Racial Preference Matters

Content: OkCupid graphed men and women’s match scores by ethnicity and found a bias against Asian men with everyone but Asian women. Maybe low self-esteem factors into Asian men’s dating decisions. As Zachary Schwartz, a 22-year-old journalist in the UK, said, “Growing up as an Asian guy, you start to think certain ways about yourself… the phraseology used when I was growing up was ‘Asian guys don’t get girls.'” Whatever the reasoning behind it, Asian men don’t seem to have yellow fever the way other men on dating sites do. Elise Hu of NPR summed it up best when she said, “The results of this study only perpetuate social problems for both sexes involved.” 4. Most Women Prefer White Men, Except Black Women
Black women were another notable exception in Quartz’s study of online attraction. Black women showed the most interest in black men, while women of other races heavily preferred white men. Black women seem most drawn to date prospects of their own race — even though black men have a low interest rating of 16.5% to black women. 5.