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swipes-only mini-experiments , which I conducted as another mini-experiment to test my overall match rate . So , I only swiped right on about 350 profiles , which increases the rejection rate to 98.3 %.
• My overall match-rate was roughly 80 %, meaning that 20 % of individuals were not mutually interested in my profile . Thus , rendering about 400 matches out of the 500 .
• Of those 400 matched profiles , I likely spoke with about 75 individuals , while generally maintaining only about a dozen matches at a time .
• And out of the 75 individuals I did message , I would say that maybe only 8 or so seemed interesting enough to have possibly met in person .
• Consequently , over the course of 35 days , I was presented with a total of 21,000 prospects and narrowed that down to a mere 8 , a rejection rate of 99.96 % of all eligible profiles I encountered on Tinder in New York .
If the above scenario took place in real life , I would have encountered a total of 25 individuals every hour for 840 straight hours , which equals 600 people a day for 35 days . These insanely high statistics serve to demonstrate just how absurd and unhealthy our relationship with technology can become and is certainly telling about the technological underpinnings that contribute to app-based dating , particularly Tinder , being perceived as overly superficial .
As I mentioned earlier , these figures are certainly not representative of the real , average Tinder user , as my goal was experimental in nature , but they can nevertheless serve as an
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