9 questions about Tinder you were too embarrassed to ask

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In a recent Jezebel article called “ Dating Sites Encourage Men to Be in my experience – having written more online dating profiles (for better or worse) than​.

Russ Ruggles, who blogs for onlinedatingmatchmaker. He notes, first, that lying is common. People lie in the direction that we would expect, given social desirability. Men, for example, tend to exaggerate their height; women tend to exaggerate their thinness:. Since people also tend to restrict their searches according to social desirability looking for taller men and thinner women , these lies will result in your being included in a greater proportion of searches.

So, if you lie, you are more likely to actually go on a date. During which, Ruggles explains, things are unlikely to fall to pieces provided your lie was small. It turns out that people’s stated preferences have a weak relationship to who they actually like.