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...example, a study published last year in Social Science Research examined 1,558 profiles that white daters living in or near big U.S. cities placed on Yahoo! Personals, which, much like Match, lists 10 racial and ethnic groups users can select as preferred dates. Among the women, 73% stated a preference. Of these, 64% selected whites only, while fewer than 10% included East Indians, Middle Easterners, Asians or blacks. (See a nerdy Valentine's Day guide on Techland.com...
...story is a little different for the men, 59% of whom stated a racial preference. Of these, nearly half selected Asians, but fewer than 7% did for black women. Why? One theory offered by the study's lead author, Cynthia Feliciano, a sociologist at the University of California at Irvine, is that men's choices are influenced by the media's portrayal of Asian women as being hypersexual and black women as being bossy...
After attempting to control for attractiveness (using something OkCupid calls a picture-rating utility) and compatibility (on the basis of answers to questions covering everything from spirituality to dental hygiene), the study found that black women garnered the fewest responses of any female group. White women responded at much higher rates to white men than to men of color. Asian women's and Latinas' response rates showed even stronger preferences for white men. (The site's latest eye-opening study determined which types of profile pictures elicit the most responses. To all the single ladies: the older...
...Crimson traveled to Ithaca, N.Y. this weekend for Part I of the Ivy League Championships, in which the squad faced off against the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Cornell. The men emerged with a 1-1 record, beating the Bulldogs and falling to the Quakers, while the women finished 2-1, falling to Penn as well but beating Yale and Cornell...
Both teams started off with a close loss to the Quakers. The No. 9 Harvard women won the majority of the sabre bouts over the No. 10 Quakers, but lost foil by a score of 7-2 and epée by a score of 6-3, leading to a final deficit...