Post #11 - Tinder - Dating platform review

App - Tinder.

Location - Silchar, Assam. 
Review duration -  March 2019

Official Facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/TinderInd 

Brief background

• As per the 2011 census, Silchar was the 270th most populous city in the country.
• Tinder is the most commonly used dating app in Silchar.

Brief review

Detailed Review

Note - The tinder account used in this survey was a male account, which means it will not see male accounts with interests only in women.

Total profiles

• Total number of profiles swiped for this survey was 196.

Gender ratio

• 2 : 1, not considering those males who had set their preferred gender setting to only females. Note that this would, of course, take away a large number of males, comprising mostly of straight ones.

Ethnic composition 

• Ratio of Tibetan-Burman people (including Meitei speaking people who are a significant population here) to Indo Aryan people (including Bengalis, the largest linguistic group in the region) was roughly 4 : 5.
• Among females, the ratio of Indo-Aryan group was lowest in the age range of 20-30. Refer to Ethno-linguistic breakdown graph under "Age bracket Ratio" section.
• One white female and male each in 30-40 found.

Body sizes ratio

• Ratio of plus sized to others was roughly 1 : 22 among females and roughly 1 : 64 among males.
• Note - I have categorized only those profiles under plus size which clearly appeared so. In case of doubt, I marked them in other category. Pictures are often not enough to get an idea of body sizes.

Age bracket ratio

• All profiles were below 40 years of age. 
• Ratio of (18 to 30) : 30 plus was roughly .5 : 1. Following are some breakdowns by age bracket ratio - 

Miscellaneous

• One woman in 20 -30 age range category seemed married.
• Guessing from the profiles and going by the known demographics of the city, majority were Hindus. One Muslim woman in 20-30 age group and one Muslim man in the same age bracket were found.
• One an average, each day, 5 to 10 new female profiles appeared. 
• I did not check for the entire available age range in my earlier reviews (last year) of Tinder at Silchar, but while looking for the 20 - 30 age range category, there used to be some days when hardly one new profile would appear. Going by that, the number of new users seemed to be steadily high this year.