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Census data can estimate how many people match facts such as age, income, and marital status. It cannot tell us what people want from dating. This optional study asks adults who visit the site about their filters, goals, and expected dating spending. Its results describe people who take part, not everyone in the U.S.
Build your result and take the study →We ask adults who visit the site what they want in a partner and what they expect to spend on dating. We compare answers about filters, relationship goals, values, and whether people think their filters fit those goals.
We describe the answers. We do not say that gender causes a preference or that a smaller calculated pool makes a standard wrong.
Each response includes an age range, gender, the group they would consider, calculator filters, expected dating spend, who they expect to pay, relationship goal, and preferences about children, education, smoking, drinking, and religion. People can also mark which filters are dealbreakers.
We do not save the calculated headcount. The saved filter choices and model version let us calculate it again. We ask how important shared religion is, not a person’s specific religion.
Taking part is optional. Only adults who agree can join. We store each response separately in private U.S. storage. We do not store a name, email, written answer, exact birth date, IP address, or browser details with the research record.
A cookie on your browser marks that it already sent a response. Hosting and security providers may still process normal request details as described in the Privacy Policy.
We check each response before we include it in a public total. We reject impossible answers and answers without consent. We also look for repeat or automated entries.
A hidden anti-bot field and a cookie that limits one response per browser help reduce casual repeats. Neither can prove that every person is unique.
We use broad signals such as how long the form took, how many times someone interacted with it, and whether all three steps were completed. For version 4, responses completed in under 15 seconds or with fewer than 10 interactions are excluded before we publish totals. We also check for malformed, duplicate, automated, or inconsistent patterns. We will publish every exclusion rule and the final sample count.
We do not show a group with fewer than 50 checked responses. We combine or hide small categories. Published tables state who is included, how missing answers were handled, when we collected the data, and how many responses were counted before any adjustment.
After review, we can publish a CSV table and a question guide. We never publish individual responses because a detailed combination of answers can make a person easier to identify.
This is a voluntary sample of site visitors. It may include more people interested in dating calculators, viral discussions, or unusually specific standards. It does not represent the whole country.
Results will be labeled “Pool Report participants.” We will not call them “all men,” “all women,” or “Americans” unless a later representative study supports that language.
A study that represents the country would need independent recruiting, a planned sample, and a sound way to adjust the results.