Cenk Uygur
@TheYoungTurks·6.5M subscribers·72.8K videos
Tinder Conducts Social Experiment - Surprised By The Results?
Posted
October 19, 2014
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October 19, 2014
270,421
3,870
1,392
1.95%
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8:53Now Playing"What happens when someone's Tinder photos don't match the real-life version? For men and women, the responses are dramatically different -- and definitely a bit sexist.
In the world of online dating, women are afraid of meeting a serial killer while men are afraid of meeting someone who is fat, at least according to one survey cited in HBO's 2011 documentary, "When Strangers Click: Five Stories From the Internet." The guys behind Simple Pickup, a male-driven dating site "devoted to the fine art of picking up girls," decided to conduct a social experiment to test this very theory.
The idea behind Simple Pickup's social experiment was to capture the responses of both males and females who meet someone on Tinder who weighs "a little more than [his or her] photo suggests.” *
Cenk Uygur () and Ana Kasparian () discuss.
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