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
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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
Probability and Nanaya’s Predictive Power
When you get your Nanaya Romance report, one of the first things you’ll see is a chart predicting your odds of finding love over the next seven years. For everyone, this is a line that starts at 0% as we calculate odds based on the moment you take the test. As you meet people in time,Continue Reading
Making Sense of Nanaya Report Scores
The Nanaya algorithm does a lot of heavy lifting to determine your romantic future, generating thousands of numbers that tell us a lot about your next seven years of romance. Unfortunately, unless you’re a computer it’s hard to actually to make sense of them. When Nanaya comes out in a few weeks, you’ll notice several differentContinue Reading
Women Aren’t Crazy
Nor are men. Or if women are crazy, then everyone’s crazy. How do we know? Over the past two months we’ve been building the database for the Nanaya algorithm – the first app that can scientifically forecast your love life and help you make romantic and social decisions. A major part of the algorithm requires searching throughContinue Reading
¿Qué nación es el mejor amante? Pregunte Nanaya
Vamos a ir directamente al grano. Most Romantic Nations ¿Puntuación más alta, mejores amantes? Ok, así que es muy difícil salir con todo un país, pero podemos describir la población de un país. Entonces, ¿cómo podemos decir en qué país es “el mejor amante” o simplemente “más romántico?” Llevamos a nuestra base de datos deContinue 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
The Best Places to Find Love in America? For Whom?
Sometimes there might be a great opportunity waiting for you but it’s just not what you want. Pew recently published the best cities for women to find the ideal man. By ideal man, they mean someone who is single and is employed. High bar, right? As posted on the New York Times: Facebook Data ScienceContinue Reading