The stats behind Datamatch 2018
As many of you may know, this past February, Datmatch came to Brown for the first time ever with the aim of bringing Brown students find love and friendship on College Hill. Afterwards, Blog compiled answers from an anonymous survey to find out more about people's experiences with Datamatch.
Feedback ranged from:
"Someone messaged me and we talked a tiny bit but it was definitely too weird to go any further to meet up. I dunno, maybe I have too much of a bias in what I think people who'd fit well with me should look like. A cool experience nonetheless."
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"You matched me with my first friend at Brown and best friend in the world! Thought you must have used Facebook or something. Great job!"
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"Met the love of my life. (Seriously tho, been hanging out with this girl and she's bae).”
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"I GOT MATCHED WITH MY CRUSH”
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"[The date] went super well and we had plenty to talk about, primarily on the Black Mirror nature of Datamatch." (That's fair.)
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a wonderful story that ended in a kiss!*
Overall, a pretty low percentage of people made it as far as actually going on a date (perhaps Brown students are more shy/more shallow/less open to love than we like to think?), but those who did generally seemed to have good time. Also, a surprisingly high number of Brown students apparently relate to the fact that Brown’s libraries house three books bound in human skin. But to be fair, I guess we're all bound in human skin, if you think about it.
For more information and the numbers behind the results, check out the infographic below!
*(We aren't publishing the actual account of the date because we don't want to reveal identifying information about the anonymous feedback-provider, but trust us, it was quite literary and romantic.) Image via Cashen Conroy '19.