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College students =/= young people
even looking at just 18-24 it's like 1/3 of them and not a representative sample, and grad students are an even tinier group of mostly mid-late 20s
College provides (usually) a built in community and likely even a walkable neighborhood, and many opportunities to meet people that the general working public often lack. Didn't stop apps from becoming popular on campuses, but I feel like it was always destined to be a fad in that context, because the apps suck so much
Also what exactly is the control group here? How different is 79% from that of other demographics?
I'm in a different age cohort, and I would be very surprised if more than 1 in 5 of my friends were using dating apps as often as once a month.
so much
"News" sites should stop trying to do statistics or anything resembling science communication, they're dogshit at it
At least some of them will have historical data to compare, but this doesn't even have that
Presumably most people in relationships aren't on dating apps, and a lot of people are in relationships... it doesn't even limit this to single people lmao
you'd think that but there was a post a while back where the only reasonable conclusions were that bros have shady standards of "in a relationship" or everybody under 30 is way way more gay than anyone thought because "maybe women tend to date older men" didn't explain how big the gender relationship gap was.
That tracks, it's not neccesarily just shady Bros, ime the poly scene skews femme and bi.