We all hear about younger women dating older men, but when it comes down to the data how often does it really happen and what does that age gap really look like? The online dating site and app Zoosk was curious about how big a factor age is when it comes to who we’re attracted to, so they looked into data from its over 40 million members to see if they could find some answers.

When it comes to male/female dating dynamics, younger women do prefer dating older men. But a look into the exact numbers provided some interesting takeaways:

56% of women prefer dating older men.
And of that 56%, the majority (56%) like men who are 1 to 4 years older than them. 30% like men who are 5 to 9 years older than them, and 14% like men who are more than 10 years older than them. That’s a pretty wide range of ages.

31% of women prefer dating younger men.
And all of the women who showed interest in younger men preferred to date men who are only 1 to 4 years younger. That means even though women are interested in dating men up to 10 years older than them, they’re only interested in dating men who are slightly younger.

14% of women prefer dating men their same age.
Give or take a few months, there are also a lot of women who prefer men their own age. (Though it’s more likely for them to find someone who’s simply close to their age. )

Men tend to outnumber women on most dating sites and apps, so their main problem is standing out in a highly competitive dating environment. Women on the other hand often report receiving too many matches or messages on a dating platform, and they can feel overwhelmed with so many potential matches with too few filters. When it comes to dating, the well-worn phrase 'men are from Mars, women are from Venus' rings true. Working as a relationship psychologist and global director of elite introductions agency. According to Quantcast data: The internet average is about 50% male and 50% female. Based on our rough estimates, for online dating as a whole: men do not outnumber women by a significant margin. Online dating average gender distribution ≈ internet average gender distribution. One can also say that for mainstream dating sites.

Apr 12, 2017 Therefore either men or women can be that way, it's just women get the stereotype of being the needy ones. (She also said because I come from a toxic home and use to being in a codependent relationship, I am going to find myself dating needy people a lot because it is a type of person I am use to pleasing.)'. Sex are the simplest and cheapest things in our life. Normally men and women is with each other but in the recent times are less think of sex. If the person is not willing to give a date then he or she is definitely not going to accept a date for dating on internet sites. But this can be the result of many of the things like commitment issues.

Women aren’t the only ones conforming to social norms.
Men also tend to follow them. Zoosk looked at who men were most attracted to while online dating and found that the numbers of men who like younger women almost mirrored that of women who like older men.

Women in their 20s match with people the farthest out of their age range.
When it comes to matching (aka the people women like also like them back) women in their 20s matched with men the farthest out of their age range. And overall, the younger a woman is, the older the men she’s likely to match with are.

Ages of Men That Women Match With While Online Dating

• Women in their 50s typically match with men who are 2 years older
• Women in their 40s typically match with men who are 3 years older
• Women in their 30s typically match with men who are 4 years older
• Women in their 20s typically match with men who are 5 years older

So what can we learn from all this information? (Other than a few interesting tidbits to share at parties.) Well, there are a lot of reasons why women typically like dating older women, and maybe you’re one of those women. That’s great. And maybe you’re not. That’s great too. Being aware of who you’re attracted to and why can help you find the person who’s right for you.

However, if you notice that you’re attracted to a certain age-group and it hasn’t been working out for you, think about that older or younger person you may not have considered before. It may be time to mix it up a bit and see if something, and someone, new will work out for you.

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If you dip your toes into the online dating pool, you may get the following impression:

“On the average dating site, men outnumber women by a large margin.”

Anecdotal evidence would support that first impression but dating site demographics data tell a different story.

Anectdotal Evidence

Based on anecdotes from users of mainstream dating sites:

• women receive 10 to 20 messages a day (with some getting 100 or more)
• men receive 1 response for every 20 to 50 messages sent (!)

This may give the impression that men outnumber women.

Why are women flooded with email? Why do men get so few responses?

Plausible explanations include:

• gender ratio (men outnumber women)
• aggressive “alpha mails” (men who send an email to dozens of women every day)
• players (men who try to juggle several women at a time)
• women who feel that men should always initiate contact
• dating site restrictions (women in free trial can receive messages but must buy subscription to respond)
• dating sites do not delete inactive profiles abandoned by women

Let’s examine gender ratio further using third-party demographic data.

Demographic Data

Quantcast is a media measurement service that calculates and publishes website audience metrics, including demographics. It is a free, third-party service that provides reports on millions of websites. We use Quantcast demographic data throughout GiveYourHandaBreak.com.

Today, we will study the 115 dating sites listed on our Dating Site Gender Distribution page. These sites cover a broad spectrum of categories including general, ethnic, niche, wealthy and 100% free dating sites.

First, let’s look at the gender ratio extremes (maximum and minimum). What dating site has the highest man:woman ratio? What site has the lowest?

This gives us a range of 62%. That’s quite a spread but we need to keep in mind that these are both niche sites with relatively low traffic. If you compare Million Club Dating Sites (visited by more than 1 million people per month) the range drops to about 20%.

Now let’s look at the average gender ratio of all dating sites. As you know, average alone can be misleading.

Let’s say we put 10 people into a room. One of them is Bill Gates. The other nine are office workers who put cover letters on TPS reports. What is the average net worth of everybody in the room? Bill Gates’ net worth for 2008 is $58 billion. The average net worth would be $5.8 billion, even though 9 of the 10 people have a net worth of $100,000 or less.

To get a more accurate picture we need to look at:

• mean (average of all values)
• median (middle value when sorted from lowest to highest)
• mode (most common value)

The table below shows the mean, median and mode for all 115 dating sites:

The above table only takes into consideration the percent male and percent female for each dating site, not the number of people who visit every month. Some dating sites get visited by 8 million people/month and others only 2,500 people/month. To get a better estimate, we need to factor in the traffic.

Compete triangulates multiple data sources, including ISP, Panel & Toolbar to estimate U.S. traffic. It is a free service that provides traffic information such as unique visitors per month.

We decided to combine Compete.com unique visitor data and Quantcast.com demographics data to estimate the number of U.S. men and women that visit each of the 115 dating sites.

Man And Woman In The Bed

Taking people/month into consideration:

According to Quantcast data:

The internet average is about 50% male and 50% female.

Based on our rough estimates, for online dating as a whole:

• men do not outnumber women by a significant margin
• online dating average gender distribution ≈ internet average gender distribution

One can also say that for mainstream dating sites:

• men outnumber women by a slight margin
• this margin is not big enough to justify the poor response rates men reported

The poor reponse rates are probably due to one or more of the factors mentioned above. On paid (subscription based) dating sites, site policies may account for most non-responders:

• failure to delete inactive profiles (in order to pad membership numbers)
• communication restrictions (free trial members must buy subscription to respond)

Of course, most paid dating sites will not tell you if the profile you are trying to contact is inactive or a free trial member that cannot respond.

On low-traffic and niche dating sites:

• gender ratios vary greatly (some as high as 5:1)

It is for this reason that you should check our Dating Site Gender Distribution page to see if gender odds are working for or against you on niche dating sites.

Related Page:
Dating Site Gender Distribution(http://www.giveyourhandabreak.com/gender/)

Related Site:
Gender Odds: Dating Site Gender Ratios(http://www.genderodds.com/)

Sources:
Demographics by Quantcast(http://www.quantcast.com/)
Web Stats by Compete Site Analytics(http://siteanalytics.compete.com/)

Internal Resources:
TheAtlasphere.com Review(http://www.giveyourhandabreak.com/sites/theatlasphere/)
AnimalAttraction.com Review(http://www.giveyourhandabreak.com/sites/animalattraction/)
Million Club Dating Sites(http://www.giveyourhandabreak.com/million/)

External Resources:
TheAtlasphere.com Website(http://theatlasphere.com/)
AnimalAttraction.com Website(http://animalattraction.com/)
How Quantcast Works(http://www.quantcast.com/docs/how-quantcast-works)
Compete Metric Descriptions – Unique Visitors(http://www.compete.com/help/q5)

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