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“For the first time in history, men in the U.S. Are more religious. They're more likely to go to church than women, and we're just seeing that men and women are really being polarized.”

“So when you compare love marriages versus arranged marriages, love marriages usually start off happier, but around the five year mark, arranged marriages are happier.”

“I think that we are going to continue to have this mating gap where, as you say, women continue to thrive in terms of education and employment, and then there just aren't enough Great guys for them”

“What happens is 50% of the population is secure, which sounds like a good thing, but those people are so good at being in relationships that they often get snatched up, and you have the anxious and avoidant people dating each other.”

“The research shows that between maximizers and satisficers, satisficers are often happier because it's not that they settle or have a low bar. It's that when they find something that meets their bar, they just buy it or accept it or move in whatever the matter…”

“There's this report from the UK called the Lost Boys Report. It shows that among men in the UK, 16 through 24. One in seven are NEAT, which stands for Non-Education, Employment, or Training, and this number went up 40% during the pandemic for men, only seven p…”

“So right now, 60% of enrollment in college is women. Soon it's gonna be two-thirds.”

“The marriage rate is nearing an all time low in the U.S. The fertility rate has dropped 20% in 20 years, and so truly, if fewer people are getting together, fewer marriages, fewer babies, this is actually a crisis for humanity.”

“Only 11% of people Experience love at first sight, and many people develop feelings over time”

“Successful couples that have happy, long marriages, they turn towards each other, 86% of the time. And this, the couples that break up, or are the relationship disasters, they only turn towards each other, 33% of the time.”

“In the United States, only 14% of men are six feet or taller.”

“What happens is, 50% of the population is secure, which sounds like a good thing, but those people are so good at being in relationships that they often get snatched up, and you have the anxious and avoidant people dating each other.”

“We've actually found that the sweet spot is after three days of chatting, just say, hey, I always walk my dog at six p.m., can I give you a phone call, or do you want to FaceTime for a few minutes tonight?”

“Around 25% of people are able to shift their attachment over time.”

“We did do research at Hinge looking at to what are the most commonly agreed upon parts of digital body language. So one of them is that actually the double text is okay.”

“There's this concept called other significant others, which is this idea that It came from research from Eli Finkel and Elaine Chung at Northwestern, and you basically say to a couple, you know, who are the different people that you go to in your lives for dif…”

“In general, selfies perform worse.”

“Yeah, so one stat I can tell you is that a lot of women set their height filter at six feet or taller, and only 14% of the men in the U.S. Are six feet or taller.”

“So we know from research that only 11% of people feel love at first sight, and that means many people are getting to know someone over time.”

“So there's research on the brain that shows when our brain gets an incomplete picture of something, we fill in the gaps in a way that makes it more positive.”

“In the research that I did on this at Hinge, what we found is that 86% of people say, when it comes to rejection, I'd rather you tell me.”

“So now if you have eight conversations with [4704] Logan Ury: Where you owe somebody a response, you cannot match with anyone else until you respond to one of those people. [4709] Logan Ury: So either you close out the conversation and show that you're not int…”

“There's a lot of research that shows that people are happier if they live within a five-minute walk of their friends.”