An Online Dating Blog by Shimrit Elisar

New questions and answers section

Since I started this blog, I’ve had a few people email me with some online dating problems/questions, so I thought it may be a good idea to invite more people to do the same. I’ll post them on here with the answers but obviously won’t include any personal information. So if anyone out there has any burning online dating questions, don’t be afraid to ask!

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New research claims to disprove popular astrological matching

Dr David Voas from The University of Manchester said that zodiac ‘love signs’ have no impact on our chances of marrying - and staying married.

The Senior Research Fellow at the University’s Centre for Census and Survey Research analysed the birthdays of all 20 million husbands and wives in England and Wales.

The investigation - using 2001 census data - failed to reveal any evidence of attraction between star signs.

(Full article here)

The research takes into account the fact that professional astrologers view the complete birth charts, rather than rely solely on sun sign, but assumes that sun signs would account for a level of measurable influence, if it existed.

There is no shortage of dating sites out there that offer astrological matching but somehow I doubt any of them will suffer too greatly from the publication of this report. Astrology is still a highly popular way for people to measure their supposed “compatibility”.

Astrology has different trends in it, much like psychology. Astrological compatibility tests are used to measure particular compatibility factors and ignore others (much like trends in psychology ).
The important thing people should keep in mind following this survey is not to take astrological compatibility too seriously and, in particular, not to write off any supposedly “incompatible” matches.

Anything that pigeon-holes people based on factors they cannot control is limited at best.

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Online dating - good for your health?

Is this thing for real?!

Researchers at Arizona State University released a survey on Monday showing that writing love letters lowers cholesterol levels.

(Full article here)

Apparently writing love letters for 20 minutes, 3 times a week lowered cholesterol more than writing about “insignificant topics”

So by this token, heavy users of dating sites should be fitter than Madonna!!

Unless, of course, they use txtspeak, or talk about football…

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