One crappy October early morning, I became sitting within my desk within the manufacturing workplace for the movie I happened to be focusing on (pretending to be busy), once I launched a hyperlink from a buddy to A okcupid weblog. The dating internet site, which I’d been on forever, had gathered internal information on exactly how much a user’s battle impacted the response rate she’d get after making the contact that is first.

Whenever I browse the results, all i really could think ended up being: everyone hates black colored ladies!

Their chart managed to get painfully clear: When a female on a message is sent by the site, her probability of getting a reply is significantly higher if she’s any race but black colored. Guys responded messages off their women—Asian, white, Hispanic, everyone—with typical reply prices between 42 and 50 per cent.

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