We spend nearly a third of our lives sleeping, far more time than just about every other activity short of breathing. In relationships, sharing a bed with a partner can be a source of intimacy with pillow talk, cuddling, and sex being an important part of our lives. While it’s romantic for some, for othersContinue Reading
Tag: sociology
How Our Psychology Affects How Long We Stay Single
In previous posts, we’ve looked at how different aspects of our identity and lives affect how long we stay single. A lot of the aspects of our identity we studied have to do with the things we do in our day-to-day lives or the environments we surround ourselves with. Sure enough, we’ve seen that somethings makeContinue Reading
How Our Political Views Affect How Long We Stay Single
Starting a dating site is a lot of work. If you do it, you better hope there will be enough users that want to use the service you provide. There are a lot of dating apps that appeal to everyone, but what if your identity and personal values are so strong that you really wantContinue Reading
How Your Identity Affects How Long You Stay Single
In last week’s post, I summarized the results of our study “How Long Will You Stay Single” and explained how we came up with these results. This week, we’ll go into the details on how different aspects of our demographic identity affect how long you stay single. It’s worth repeating is that these results areContinue Reading
“How Long Do People Stay Single?” Answered by Nanaya
How long do people stay single after a relationship? It’s a question everyone has wondered at some point, but it’s a question that no one has answered. Really, no one! Well, here at Nanaya we predict peoples’ love lives and we’re all about using the data we’ve collected to improve our algorithms and answer THEContinue Reading
Which Nation Is the Best Lover? Ask Nanaya.
Para la versión en español por favor haga clic aquí. Let’s get straight to the chase. Most Romantic Nations Higher score, better lovers? Ok, well it’s awfully hard to date a whole country but we can describe the populations of a country. So how can we say which country is “the best lover” or simplyContinue Reading
“Should I Dump My Girlfriend? Will I Find Another?”
Well let’s not get too hasty. Earlier this week, I posted the Nanaya white paper to ArXiv: “Should I Dump My Girlfriend? Will I Find Another?” Or: An Algorithm for the Forecasting of Romantic Options. The title is a bit melodramatic but it’s a reference to Peter Backus’s “Why I Don’t Have a Girlfriend.” ApologiesContinue Reading
Does Online Dating Actually Boost Your Odds?
This is a bit of a no-brainer: online dating increases your exposure to more people than you ordinarily would run into each day. Sometimes that’s not so good: But let’s face it, it’s not always easy to meet people you want to meet and the one might be out there. There’s pretty minimal investment in onlineContinue Reading
All’s Nerdy in Love and War
Time to take a break from writing about relationships and psychology and write about something close to home: engineering. Specifically, this post connects fighting wars to forecasting love though an engineering history lesson. If there’s something humans are born to do it’s stay alive. While almost all creatures have the biological urge to “fight orContinue Reading
The Catch-22 of Finding a Match
It shouldn’t be a big surprise but the best chances of finding a romantic match are after a big life change, such as a move, going to college, or a new job. In fact it takes on a shape that looks a bit like this: Being in a new environment means exposure to new people.Continue Reading