A 19,131-person study found marriages that began online were slightly happier and less likely to end. Here's what it showed and who funded it.
The 36 questions to fall in love come from a 1997 closeness study. Here's what Arthur Aron's research measured, found and never claimed.
BLS data shows Americans spent 35 minutes a day socializing in 2025, down from 41 in 2015. What the numbers say, and what they mean for meeting someone.
Cuffing season is usually blamed on cold weather. A 129-country study of search data points somewhere else: the holidays. Here's what the evidence supports.
45% of New Yorkers 15+ have never married, and Manhattan has about 90 unmarried men per 100 unmarried women aged 15–44. Census data by borough.
A meta-analysis of 199 studies plus data on 79,074 UK couples finds partners resemble each other on most traits. Where similarity matters, and where it doesn't.
Pew found 57% of single adults aren't looking for a relationship or dates — and interest has been falling, especially among men. What that means for the people who are.
The 'everyone is single now' narrative peaked in 2019. Pew's analysis of Census data shows the unpartnered share has ticked down — and where singles actually concentrate.
Does cohabiting before marriage raise divorce risk? A Stanford analysis of 216,000 couple-years says the answer depends on when you look — and on who you lived with before.
'Half of marriages end in divorce' is decades out of date. CDC vital statistics show divorce at its lowest rate in generations — and marriage declining too. The full 2000–2023 numbers.
Psychologists have run hundreds of controlled speed-dating events to study attraction. The core finding: people can't predict who they'll want. Here's the data.
Americans now marry later than ever, and the research on age gaps is more nuanced than the headlines. Here's what Census data and a well-known Emory study really found.
Stanford's How Couples Meet and Stay Together study is the definitive dataset on relationship formation. Here's what it found — including the parts nobody quotes.
Attachment style content online is mostly recycled without citation. Here's what a large national survey and a 132-study meta-analysis actually found.
Pew Research Center's 2023 survey of U.S. online daters is one of the few large, methodologically solid datasets on the subject. Here's what it actually shows.
Data on time-to-first-date shows most matches either meet within a week or drift into an endless talking stage that never converts. Here's what the numbers say.
Most advice about opening lines is guesswork. Here's what response-rate data actually shows about what gets a reply — and why the whole premise may be the wrong question.
People want a number. The honest answer is more useful than a number — here's what the data on dating volume and match quality actually shows.
Everyone cites a "success rate" for dating apps and matchmaking, but the numbers rarely mean what people think. Here's what the data actually shows.
Tenr evaluates potential matches across 250+ dimensions. Here's what that data actually captures, what it can predict, and where human judgment still has the edge.