| "men outnumber women on dating sites" Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/29/2008 6:44:47 PM | Apologies if this is termed a "redundant topic", but I did do searches and didn't find much of anything asking what I'm going to ask.
I look at the very long topic of where men claim women have it made in online dating or even in dating in general, and the back and forth agreement/disagreement it became. In the arguments I've seen on other venues, the typical words come out about how men outnumber women on dating sites, some claiming ratios of 5 to 1 or even 20 to 1 of men to women on these sites.
So my two questions for discussion:
1) Do you believe more men join dating sites than women? Or do you think the numbers are more even?
2) If you think more men join dating sites than women, then why do you think more women are reluctant to use or against using a dating site as opposed to men?
Be nice. I really don't care who you think has the "advantage". Just keep to what you think is the "why". I'd also love to hear from both genders on this. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/29/2008 7:21:05 PM | | I think that 20:1 ratio represents the number of fat, bald, short, old, and broke men who want thin, long haired, tall, young, and rich women. Otherwise, I think it is an even number of men to women. He can't get that ONE out of 20 he wants. It's not like there aren't 19 other women, he is more evenly matched with for a date. He wants a low cost supermodel, where the odds of that happening are dream on in any fora. I wouldn't mind Brad Pitt, myself. I try to be a little more realistic so that way I am not disappointed when he still doesn't email me. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/29/2008 7:29:01 PM |
1) Do you believe more men join dating sites than women? Or do you think the numbers are more even?
I don't know. Whether true or not, though, I think it may seem as if there is a greater preponderance of men than there actually is just because men so often do the bulk of the pursuing. Which is certainly convenient for we women seeking men! | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/29/2008 8:50:59 PM |
I think that 20:1 ratio represents the number of fat, bald, short, old, and broke men who want thin, long haired, tall, young, and rich women. Otherwise, I think it is an even number of men to women. He can't get that ONE out of 20 he wants. It's not like there aren't 19 other women, he is more evenly matched with for a date. He wants a low cost supermodel, where the odds of that happening are dream on in any fora. I wouldn't mind Brad Pitt, myself. I try to be a little more realistic so that way I am not disappointed when he still doesn't email me.
I do believe that there are no less than ten guys to every woman on these sites. The reason is very simple. Nearly every woman on these sites says she wants a tall, intelligent, financially stable, etc etc and so on guy. Now if the ratio was anything close to equal the online dating experience I've had should be considerably different even if most of those women were lying about what they wanted or just didn't realize they say one thing and did another.
Online dating isn't much different than the dating experience in engineering school. There simply aren't enough women to go around and once the truly scary ones are removed consideration the numbers are so bad that the lotto looks like it has better odds. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/29/2008 9:33:28 PM | | I would say it depends on age and location. There are twice as many men than women in my age range (21 - 29). It probably changes the older you get and the more people get married. I think more men join because they don't care about the "romantic element" of meeting their future SO and it's easy. The majority of men will encounter rejection if they approach women so its better to do it here where it's less "personal" than in real life. That's my take on it at least. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/29/2008 9:34:31 PM | OP
Did you know that women outnumber men in *real life*?At least in Canadian stats. And it's going to get more skewed as more female babies are being conceived than males. It has something to do with more fake estrogen being introduced into our environment. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/29/2008 9:52:47 PM | Whether or not men outnumber women on dating websites, I don't know.
But even if women outnumbered the men, would it be more likely that I'd be interested in the women whom are interested in me??
Not so much. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/29/2008 10:04:37 PM | I`ve done searches in my area over a period of time maybe a few years just to check my competition.
The searches were in my age range on several sites. The men outnumber the women roughly 2 to 1 overall the sites (3)
On some sites its closer to being even.
I`ve glazed alot of the guys profiles, most appear to be presentable enough statistics wise. I cant say how attractive they are but I`m not noticing a large number of short fat bald and broke. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/29/2008 10:25:46 PM |
OP
Did you know that women outnumber men in *real life*?At least in Canadian stats. And it's going to get more skewed as more female babies are being conceived than males. It has something to do with more fake estrogen being introduced into our environment.
Oh I do know that. I wanted to mention it too, but when I looked it up the population ratio came out to me 1.06 women for every man. I guess that didn't seem like a big "outnumbering".
I guess I figure if there are a vast number of single males there must also be a vast number of single females, yet it seems from what I see and hear many of those females aren't on these sites as much as the men are.
I'm in agreement with the opinions that many tend to think the ratio is skewed because they don't "count" the members of the opposite sex they don't find attractive, so some see it as there's 20 guys to every "hot" woman in the sites.
I also think that the amount of people who simply do not want to date or get involved in anything also need to be accounted for.
Finally...I wonder also if the amount of people cheating on someone also thus raises the population of one gender on the sites over the other. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/30/2008 8:59:44 AM | ...the population ratio came out to me 1.06 women for every man.
Just so you know:
1) In the field of study about which you're talking, it's called the "sex ratio".
2) The convention is that it's given as the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls, not the other way around.
It's been known since 1662 that more boys than girls are born, so the number is almost always greater than 1 until you get up to age ranges where the fact that males die more and earlier starts to have an effect. About a dozen factors have been identified which affect the sex ratio.
I don't know anything in particular about Canada, but I'd be extremely skeptical about any ratio down in the 0.94 range like the one mentioned. In the US, the sex ratio at birth has been dropping since about 1970 but is still well above one (1.046).
Any reported ratio which is very far from 1.0, such as "20 to 1", is likely to be an exaggeration, or may only apply to a very narrowly defined sub-population. As alluded to above, it's obvious that it doesn't matter if the ratio is 100:1 in your favor if none of those 100 are considered dateable.
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/30/2008 1:47:41 PM | | Well I just did a search in my area for both men and women within 10 miles and came up with 7 pages for men and 8 for women around my age group. So going by that, there are in my area anyway, more women than men. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/30/2008 1:51:38 PM | It varies depending on the location. However, on POP the male/female ratio varies from a little less than 2/1 to about 7/1. It is very easy to determine. Pick all ages and distance (such as 5 miles) so the number do not exceed 600 and search for all males another search for all females. The number of males divided by the number of females will give you the ratio.
If you are in a high density area you will have to break the ages in ranges to keep the maximum number in each range under 600.
I did a search within five miles of a certain zip code in Little Rock, Arkansas for males seeking females and females seeking males and the number were 581 males and 89 females. That is a ratio of 6.5 males to every female. I also did a search for males seeking males and females seeking females but adding those to the number above did not have any significant effect on the ratio.
A similar search for all males and all females within 50 miles of Texarkana, Arkansas gave the following numbers. 318 males and 96 females. A m/f ratio of 3 to 1. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/30/2008 4:22:55 PM | | I too have done that kind of study on here. Men almost always outnumber females. Which makes it hard to get notice. Dating sites would do better if they focused on marketing more to women. Also, if we could blackball the exhibitionists and freaks that scare good women away would help. Along with the married pervert and naive kid who thinks he can juts get sex we would make it more likely for girls to join. Until then us guys will have to plow through. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/30/2008 4:30:50 PM | | In my area and age range it's 200 women to 250 men so not hugely disproportionate. But quite a few of the men are looking for younger women and this may make it seem way out of kilter | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/30/2008 4:53:35 PM | ......and broke.
With this recession, going to be A LOT of broke men....women might have to suck it up and date 'em. 
To the woman that said the single women that outnumber the single men in Real life....agreed there too.
If you go to real life functions like speed dating events (great example).....there's probably 90% women, and 10% men.
I've heard things like the women that show up are taken or the "taken one" came to "support their friend" but decided to participate anyway for the fun of it.
And speed dating is more of a "How many faults I can find in these men" instead of men they will consider dating. | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/30/2008 5:23:04 PM | With an unofficial state motto that says, "Incest is Best!"
Arkansas isn't a good sample pool.
Kentucky is out too!
Most ethical Arkansans relocate to Kentucky.
And Everyone in Kentucky knows that you don't marry a virgin.
Why?
Because, "if she ain't good enough for her own family........she ain't good enough for anyone else's!"
I'd suspect that, if men DO outnumber women on here?
It's because married men are re-casting their poles in the pond! | |
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| men outnumber women on dating sites Fact? or Myth?
Posted: 12/30/2008 5:36:10 PM | OK...to all the people who believe men outnumber women on these sites, I still want to know why you think that is?
Is it that there are more married men on these sites cheating? Or something that keeps single women from trying?
I'm not just wanting to know if men outnumber women on dating sites, but also the WHY. | |
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