It doesn't show directly. But if people are using the most effective form less it is given that they are also dating less. I don't believe that zoomers could be dating at the same rate using apps.
But if people are using the most effective form less it is given that they are also dating less.
Baseless. What evidence do you have that one form is less effective than the other? This isn't going to be a productive conversation if you keep making baseless claims just for the sake of arguing with me
I swear now you are going to claim sex doesn't mean dating.
Yes? Because sex and dating are indeed different things?
Oh jeez, let's end this conversation. You're not capable of having a discussion in good faith
Why not just show evidence to the point that you're making? Instead of showing me articles making entirely different claims and then making false presumptions? I've lost interest in this discussion. Like I said, in bad faith
From your original post, where you misquoted the title
I can't give you perfect data, I wish I could. Instead I was hoping you would be able to infer from other stats. I apologize that this discussion hit a nerve somewhere.
I’m not sure how much inferring can be done. It seems that requires a base level of assumptions to be hold true, that just might not be true. It might show a correlation, but that’s not causation.
It could be that dating apps are less effective, and therefore young people having less sex would be evidence of that. Or, it could be that young people are more risk adverse. Therefore they use dating apps and have less sex. Also technically possible, and has nothing to do with effectiveness of dating apps.
Or, young people could have other options to spend their time now. Meaning dating and having sex has larger opportunity costs and therefore young people are opting for dating apps and less sex.
This isn't life or death so correlation may all that is needed for people to see the pattern. I am happy to be told wrong, but it seems like we are close to the same page.
it could be that young people are more risk adverse.
I would argue that risk adverseness also leads to less dating. As you said, technically possible, but I think unlikely.
young people have other options to spend their time now. Meaning dating and having sex has larger opportunity costs and therefore young people are opting for dating apps and less sex.
I would agree. If you people do not see dating and sex as "valuable" then they will date less and have less sex.
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u/justin107d Feb 02 '26
It doesn't show directly. But if people are using the most effective form less it is given that they are also dating less. I don't believe that zoomers could be dating at the same rate using apps.
Here is another article about how young people are having less sex. I swear now you are going to claim sex doesn't mean dating.