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>“Our model also predicts that marriages created in a society with online dating tend to be stronger,” they say.

From everything I understand the data says just the opposite, that couples who met online are more likely to break up.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/online-dating-marr...

The article you link addresses 'couples'. This post addresses the specific subset of 'marriage'.

No, it addresses married couples too.

>8 percent of [married] online couples were separated or divorced over the course of the survey, compared to 2 percent of the couples who met offline.

It's interesting because the paper says people who meet on-line are less likely to get married in the first place, so it really paints a picture of how volatile these relationships actually are.

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