Heterosexual couples only. Stanford’s survey weights are applied to make the sample nationally representative; the lines are smoothed, because per-year samples are small.
Source: Stanford How Couples Meet and Stay Together survey ([https://data.stanford.edu/hcmst]())
Tools: Python, matplotlib
rogomatic on
Yeah, I call bull on a graph that specifically excludes college.
Prostberg on
Curious about those couples meeting online in the 60’s
Loki-L on
Fun fact: About 4% of married Americans live in arranged marriages.
Silly-Resist8306 on
My wife and I are so typical. We met at a high school football game in 1967. We’ve now been married for 53 years.
scene_missing on
Ok, what’s that tiny bump in Online in the 60s and 70s?? Was someone picking up your memaw on the ARPANet?
mobyte on
I think I’d rather be alone than subject myself to dating apps. Fuck those abominations.
ejp1082 on
Per your data source, 0.0265% of couples met online in 1961.
I’m gonna say that’s a little suspect.
mistere213 on
What if we met at work, years ago while both married then matched, post divorce, online? So we did know each other, just didn’t know about the other’s relationship status.
PM_THE_GUY_BELOW_ME on
Shout out to that couple who hooked up on ARPANET
staatsclaas on
Shooting your shot at the workplace took a huge HR “it ain’t worth the smoke” step back through the 90’s.
Rowing_Lawyer on
Where’s the category for a multi-year series of misadventures and near misses that you later tell your kids about? There’s at least one of those
Benji_Suite on
If I don’t use online apps am I screwed?
neo_sporin on
Unsure how to answer. I met my wife in K-12 school at an event, but our mutual friend told her ‚this is kevin, he’s the worst. Keep your distance‘
So did we meet through friends or via school?
jodi_knight on
This always makes me wonder which method leads to the highest success rate. Or if they are the same when it comes to producing long term relationships.
Measure76 on
I feel like I’m seeing the death of platonic friendship over time on this graph.
Esternaefil on
2012/online is exactly when/how I met my wife.
Electronic-Tooth-455 on
I read ‚How Americans met their parents‘ and was very confused when the first thing I saw after the title was: ‚50% met online‘
dchung97 on
This data is only up to 2021 so during the pandemic. I sort of think that this has peaked and now is going in the reverse direction.
enfuego138 on
I met my spouse in college. That’s not even an option here? Seems like it wouldn’t be so rare as to be excluded.
nathynwithay on
I spent years on apps just trying to get a date, changing up profiles all the time, changing up bios.
It’s how I know I am not worthy of love so when I deleted the apps years ago I never tried to date again.
BigCommieMachine on
The data on this is pretty warped by 1 HUGE outlier: 2020 during COVID.
You certainly weren’t meeting people are bars during COVID and you friends weren’t trying to hook you up with someone. So that left 2 places: Online and Church.
yellow-duckie on
Now put the divorce trend as well please
Marlsfarp on
Only 1% are with people they knew as children? Really? That seems implausibly low.
gimmickypuppet on
Interesting but not beautiful. Looks like a standard excel graph
Illiander on
AI. So probably wrong data.
Quasi-Yolo on
Damn tracking the death of high school sweet hearts
Cyan-Panda on
I swear I read “ how Americans met their parents“ and thought this was r/comedyheaven
DIOSURNO on
I read How americans met their parents and was really curious about it, I guess meeting partners is interesting too
danieltheg on
I’m surprised there’s not more of a discontinuity in “met online” post-Tinder. I remember online dating being viewed as almost embarrassing, something you did if you failed at the more traditional avenues, until the apps came around and it became the norm. But in this plot it’s a pretty constant slope since the 80s. Maybe slightly steeper in the 10s.
Milkmartyr on
These always cut off during peak covid. 2021 is nothing like 2025, i want to see the update
theservman on
I wonder how many of those people actually met online but lied about it due to the stigma at the time.
Just like there were a lot fewer openly gay people when it was socially unacceptable.
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Heterosexual couples only. Stanford’s survey weights are applied to make the sample nationally representative; the lines are smoothed, because per-year samples are small.
Source: Stanford How Couples Meet and Stay Together survey ([https://data.stanford.edu/hcmst]())
Tools: Python, matplotlib
Yeah, I call bull on a graph that specifically excludes college.
Curious about those couples meeting online in the 60’s
Fun fact: About 4% of married Americans live in arranged marriages.
My wife and I are so typical. We met at a high school football game in 1967. We’ve now been married for 53 years.
Ok, what’s that tiny bump in Online in the 60s and 70s?? Was someone picking up your memaw on the ARPANet?
I think I’d rather be alone than subject myself to dating apps. Fuck those abominations.
Per your data source, 0.0265% of couples met online in 1961.
I’m gonna say that’s a little suspect.
What if we met at work, years ago while both married then matched, post divorce, online? So we did know each other, just didn’t know about the other’s relationship status.
Shout out to that couple who hooked up on ARPANET
Shooting your shot at the workplace took a huge HR “it ain’t worth the smoke” step back through the 90’s.
Where’s the category for a multi-year series of misadventures and near misses that you later tell your kids about? There’s at least one of those
If I don’t use online apps am I screwed?
Unsure how to answer. I met my wife in K-12 school at an event, but our mutual friend told her ‚this is kevin, he’s the worst. Keep your distance‘
So did we meet through friends or via school?
This always makes me wonder which method leads to the highest success rate. Or if they are the same when it comes to producing long term relationships.
I feel like I’m seeing the death of platonic friendship over time on this graph.
2012/online is exactly when/how I met my wife.
I read ‚How Americans met their parents‘ and was very confused when the first thing I saw after the title was: ‚50% met online‘
This data is only up to 2021 so during the pandemic. I sort of think that this has peaked and now is going in the reverse direction.
I met my spouse in college. That’s not even an option here? Seems like it wouldn’t be so rare as to be excluded.
I spent years on apps just trying to get a date, changing up profiles all the time, changing up bios.
It’s how I know I am not worthy of love so when I deleted the apps years ago I never tried to date again.
The data on this is pretty warped by 1 HUGE outlier: 2020 during COVID.
You certainly weren’t meeting people are bars during COVID and you friends weren’t trying to hook you up with someone. So that left 2 places: Online and Church.
Now put the divorce trend as well please
Only 1% are with people they knew as children? Really? That seems implausibly low.
Interesting but not beautiful. Looks like a standard excel graph
AI. So probably wrong data.
Damn tracking the death of high school sweet hearts
I swear I read “ how Americans met their parents“ and thought this was r/comedyheaven
I read How americans met their parents and was really curious about it, I guess meeting partners is interesting too
I’m surprised there’s not more of a discontinuity in “met online” post-Tinder. I remember online dating being viewed as almost embarrassing, something you did if you failed at the more traditional avenues, until the apps came around and it became the norm. But in this plot it’s a pretty constant slope since the 80s. Maybe slightly steeper in the 10s.
These always cut off during peak covid. 2021 is nothing like 2025, i want to see the update
I wonder how many of those people actually met online but lied about it due to the stigma at the time.
Just like there were a lot fewer openly gay people when it was socially unacceptable.