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NoLinkToMe | 12 days ago

> If you say the culprit is hookup culture, then most people are into that culture and don't want kids.

No, what I'm saying is that an app to hook up isn't representative.

Neither me nor the women I've dated have ever been on dating apps, yet we're together and want kids. We're not in your sample of potential app users. Neither are my parents who had kids. Or virtually every parent who is in a relationship with kids. None of them are in your sample of potential app users.

Yet everyone who doesn't want kids and wants to date, is possibly in your sample of potential app users.

It should be obvious what type of user is likely to join this app, and what type of user isn't. Far more people join for a hookup than for a relationship.

Even if 50% of members join to find a partner on the app to have kids, and 50% just want a hook-up, the former leave as soon as they're successful, leaving the latter group. By definition you're not expected to find a large pool of people on there who want a partner and kids, compared to the number of people who just want short-term hookups.

So are the people you see on this app representative of society? No.

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