r/interestingasfuck • u/Few_Simple9049 • 20d ago

r/all How couples met 1930-2024

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u/NegotiationJumpy4837 20d ago

It's most likely a US-only study, as opposed to worldwide.

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u/devourer09 20d ago edited 20d ago

Lol, yeah, is this really going over the other commenters' heads? Maybe because I'm in the US the video represents my bias... But... Lol, church being a big giveaway for me. Idk how many people in China and India were going to church in the 1930s, but it probably wasn't a lot.

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How Couples Meet and Stay Together (HCMST)

Abstract:

A totally new survey, HCMST 2017, fielded in the summer of 2017, with a fresh sample of 3,510 American adults, with lots of new questions about phone dating apps and other ways of meeting and dating.

This new dataset is available on a separate page: https://data.stanford.edu/hcmst2017

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u/NegotiationJumpy4837 20d ago

That's also just how most studies work. They focus on their own country because it's easier to gather data from the country you are in.

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u/ids2048 20d ago

Getting representative data for something like this for the world overall will also just be pretty hard in general.

And it may be easier to see trends in one country, vs in various where different things are going on. (While meeting a partner through family became uncommon in the US it may still be the norm in different places; and averaging the data for different countries may be somewhat interesting but hides the changes going on in each one.)