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Online dating seems like the real world are different, the University of California, Berkeley, say the researchers.
Researchers more than 1 million profiles of singles looking for love online, the data collected.
They learned that white members overwhelmingly prefer to date their own race, while blacks have to overcome, especially the men, much more with the racial barrier.
Berkeley scientists analyzed racial preferences and the online activities of people in the United States in 2009 and 2010, were signed between a major Internet dating service.
Indicated a racial preference in your profile online daters. Some said they preferred to date within their race, preferably to the other person out of races, and still others said they were open to dating American descent.
, For an appointment to get actual contact, and profound differences between blacks and whites, the researchers were able to compare the preferences of online daters. "
"If they were indifferent about the race, some were young black men," said Dr. Gerald Mendelsohn, the study's lead author, said that soon will be submitted for publication.
In total, he said, "Black on white, men and young women expressed a similar race over the age of the participants brought their preference for mates."
The reluctance of white contact with blacks than those who did not worry about the race was really called for. White and in contact with them at least 5 percent of blacks, an imbalance that the older participants kept in touch with the young and nearly 80 percent of whites.
"They were hypocrites alert social realities of the world? Political correctness an optimization strategy for the conflict to try to represent themselves, our data do not allow us to choose between alternatives?," The study authors wrote.
An estimated one in five Americans, a online dating service eHarmony and Match.com, and romance through Facebook and other social networks have been used to find the ever-increasing numbers. The proportion of couples have met online almost equal to that of couples who met through friends or relatives have learned, the researchers said.