Thank you so much for this information. Now, it makes sense as in nothing to see here. Safe to say the world has changed quite a bit since 2010.
The world has changed but not when it comes to race and dating. If you compare this study to older and more recent studies on race and online dating there really isn't much of a difference. The only difference between this study and other studies is black people dating preferences. In this
dating divide study, black men strongly prefer black women and black women responded more to white men but they didn't exclude black men.In older and more recent studies, black men weakly preferred black women and black women strongly preferred black men. This study and other study findings are largely the same.
Also Jennifer Lundquist,the author,did a similar study in 2013/2014 called Mate selection in cyberspace.Her findings were similar to other studies. Black women strongly prefer black men and black men prefer black women but not as strongly.Nonblack people overwhelmingly discriminated against black people. Lundquist uses similar dataset and methodology in the mate selection study as she does in the dating divide study.
Here is Lundquist explaining her dataset in the mate selection study:
"The original data set consists of approximately 9 million registered users worldwide and 200 million messages, from November 2003 to October 2010.In essence, the data set consists of numerous social networks in which the
users are nodes with various attributes and the messages are directional ties that connect nodes. However, in contrast to typical social network data, both our nodes and ties have a temporal property: each user has a definite
lifetime and each tie is formed at a specific time point. To facilitate the analysis, we filter the users in four steps. First, we limit
our scope to users who reside in the 20 largest metropolitan areas in the United States
and brings down the sample size to about 3 million daters.Second, we exclude users who did not send or receive at least one message,
who did not upload at least one photograph, who listed their birth year later than 1992 or earlier than 1911, or who fit the profile of spammer users. The reason is that, similarly to most free membership websites, some of the
users did not actively engage with or even return to the website after initial
registration and a few users are likely to be fake identities created by spammers. We thus retain only genuine dating website members, that is,
users who had the opportunity to legitimately interact with other users in the data set. Third, we exclude daters who were looking only for casual sex or platonic relationships to ensure that the patterns observed among the
daters reflect the mate selection process. Finally, we exclude from the analysis
in this article users who identified as gay or bisexual, a population we
explore in a separate paper. Our final sample consists of 528,800 straight men and 405,021 straight women."
I feel like you guys are latching onto this study because it confirms your belief that black women prefer white men while ignoring the million other data that says the opposite.