Tinder rolled out options for those who don’t identify as men or women to choose from a range of trans and non-gender conforming options in 2016. This came after a spate of harassment, as well as controversy as Tinder banned trans people for how they had chosen to identify on the platform after other users […]
Perhaps the most notable finding from an analysis of the most commonly used body words (presumably mostly used to describe the user’s own body, though perhaps also including what interests them in terms of prospective partner’s body), is that women tend to describe themselves far more than men. Indeed, the only term that is used […]
Tinder message length: male vs female users A small anecdotal study carried out ‘Worst-Online-Dater’ and published on Medium found another way in which an imbalance exists between men and women on Tinder. If you use physical attractiveness as your yardstick (let’s face it, this is what Tinder is designed to do), then the ‘bottom’ 80% […]
Percentage of male and female Tinder users who use various tactics Using male and female created profiles, the study also found that female profiles would get a lot more matches a lot quicker than male profiles (chiming with the above tactics). In the case of the former, the researchers recorded around 200 matches within an […]
Tinder’s own Modern Dating Myths study found that only 9% of Tinder-using men found commitment difficult, compared with 30% of offline daters. In terms of female users, 9% of female Tinder users aged 18-25 found it hard to maintain a relationship due to too many choices, falling to 6% for 26-34 year olds. This compares […]