Why Online Dating Can’t Find Us a Good Match

Hint: It’s not because of echo chambers

Karla Starr
OneZero
Published in
10 min readFeb 15, 2022

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From far away, everything looks like a simple problem, which is the only explanation I can possibly give as to why a man who has been married for 30 years would write about online dating woes. Arthur Brooks’s “The Common Dating Strategy That’s Totally Wrong argues that people today aren’t happy with dating and…

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Karla Starr
OneZero

Speaker & author x2, inc. Making Numbers Count (w/ Chip Heath). Behavioral science, cultural history, numbers.