Purple
Hi guys!
Black/White mix
White Boy
White female – 4/5
Black female – 1/1
Black boy
White female – 1/5
Black female – 0/1
Starting on Monday 10/12/2009, I’ve started an experiment on OKCupid, a dating website based towards the younger group of 18-26.
When I first got on the website, I got minimal responses, and very minimal messages done impulsively. I’m not saying I’m an attractive males that deserves replies, however it’s very small for the amount that’s online. I message people when they’re online, so because of that, they should see those messages and respond correct? Especially if the website itself matches people based off of their similar interest.
Wrong.
I don’t think it’s my personality, because as far as I’m concerned I’m a pretty average person who likes to talk, why wouldn’t girls want to talk to someone.
It’s my race.
The experiment is simple; I copy/paste my information from my current profile into a fake profile, made with a white person instead of a black one, the person being a friend of mine (Drake Greer). So a sense, it’s the same basic person, however the only difference is obvious, one’s black, one’s white.
Considering I asked all the questions for the match maker honestly, the same people should show up, some of them however, I’ll have to copy and paste profiles to get the messaging to begin.
The experiment will begin like this.
I’m sending messages to multiple people
Day 1:
I’m writing a lot of questions trying to get to 50, once I get there I’ll be at the same point that I’m at with.
I don’t even get a chance to finish before someone messages me and talks to me about their day. A white female, after a few minutes of discussion, she wants me to watch one of her free webcam shows. This is where I draw the line, fearing to corrupt my computer. However I guess since it’s real chat I’ll consider it a person.
White female number 2, name not being ousted of course, I messaged a person originally on my account and never got a response, our percentage was around 68 percent, I did the same with the “white boy” account, (I ****ed up the test apparently because the results showed 56 or so percent). Regardless, I got a response. This was pretty early in the day on top of that. I’ve sent (name removed) messages on two different websites, OKC, and FC, FC is only relevant because it shows that’s she’s online consistently. The irony is, she said she no longer uses OKC, (or hasn’t used it in forever, either way, she continued not to respond to the black boy account). I got what I needed out of her statistically, and while having a few phrases of conversation here and there, didn’t make it anything personal or emotionally bonding, and moved on.
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I’ve come into contact with another girl (name taken out). The match was 95% on black boy, 76% on white boy (I really messed up the test apparently). My message was not at all as long or interested as it was on the black boy post. Note that the girl is two years older than both profiles show. Apparently age isn’t even a factor either, only race.
Day 1 –night time-
White Boy
White female – 6/7
Black female – 2/2
Black boy
White female – 2/7
Black female – 0/2
The results are becoming **** near obvious now, I’m getting absolutely no responses from the black boy account, and almost all respond eventually to the white boy account. I began to ask them for a game of “20 questions”. The lot of them I asked questions like “ how do you feel about equality towards ethnicity, physically, etc.”. Or “would you mind having friends of another race.” Etc. All of them answered yes to these racial based questions. Meaning that they would be okay with blacks, I however did not ask if a black person was to message them, would they respond, this would be way to much crossing the line.
End of Day 1
All I found is this from the project today, many women showed immense interest in the white male other than the black male. In fact, they all could potentially be good friends if I went deeper into conversation and interest. However, not to harm the women (because I felt bad enough for doing this in the first place) I decided to let this end here.
I couldn’t see myself messaging these people anymore with a fake persona, so I deleted the account and ended the project, holding the information in this document. These girls ranged from black punk, black prep, preppy white girls, punk rock girls, girls who are free-spirited, down right strict, etc. The white man got responses from all of them. Black man, barely any at all. I leave the experiment here saying that the statistics are definitely true, white men get the most responses, while black men do not. That was really just for humor on my day off, but it really taught myself as a black person a lot. Anyway it’s 11:56pm, I’ll be flooded with “you have no life” “you’re racist” “wall of text” “why’d you do this” type of messages eventually.
Cheers all.
ending results amongst 10 women
White Boy
White female – 7/8
Black female – 2/2
9 women out of ten
Black boy
White female – 2/8
Black female – 0/2
10 women out of ten
