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Are there any systematic differences in OkCupid's user's behaviour in other countries outside the US and Canada?

To what extent are you mapping human behaviour, vs US cultural ones?

Except when it comes to race

Ergo in racially different countries, usage could be different (albeit I suspect your user base in, say, Japan, is not huge). But across similar racial-backgrounds in major Western countries you see no major difference? Is that the correct interpretation of your statement? Racial lines supercede national ones? (which is in itself an interesting conclusion).

Secondly, OkCupid's pricing algorithm looks, to an observer, really... simple. Gender, location, age, some pretty simple price discrimination on assumptions around willingness to pay. Given the reams of data at your disposal, how much tearing has been done on optimal pricing strategies?

As a non-serious example, perhaps people who would squeal like a dolphin also have a higher willingness to pay for online dating? A-list? Boosts? Donation-because-ad-blocker? So many possibilities! So much data!

Thank you.