Tinder doesn鈥檛 seem to be as good at finding you a partner as you might think. An analysis of the match-making service聽found that most people don鈥檛 meet up with others through the app and the chances of meeting someone interested in a long-term relationship are relatively low.
Trond Viggo Gr酶ntvedt at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and his colleagues surveyed 269 students in Norway who said they were current or former Tinder users. About 60 per cent of the students were women.
People reported that on average they had been matched to more than 100 other people during their time using the app. But only about half of the participants said they had ever actually met one of their matches in person. The likelihood that a study participant would use Tinder to meet a potential partner was the same for men and women.
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Only about 25 per cent of study participants said they had used the app to meet someone interested in a long-term relationship.
One-night stands
Gr酶ntvedt鈥檚 team also discovered that roughly 20 per cent of people had used Tinder to meet a partner for a one-night stand 鈥� although the participants also reported to be just as likely to engage in a one-night stand with a partner they had met via other means.
Tinder might not be an efficient way of meeting a long-term committed partner, says Gr酶ntvedt. 鈥淏ut this is one study from Norway,鈥� he cautions. 鈥淲e need to see more cross-cultural studies.鈥�
Gareth Tyson at Queen Mary University of London is sceptical about the idea that Tinder has had much effect on dating. 鈥淭inder may not be rewriting the fundamentals of modern dating: similar patterns continue, simply in a new arena,鈥� he says. Tyson adds that there is value in the new study. 鈥淭he paper challenges the stereotype that [Tinder] is purely a 鈥榮ex app鈥�, instead finding that this applies to only a small minority of users.鈥�
Tinder didn鈥檛 respond to 快猫短视频鈥檚 request for comment.
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