DON'T GDDGLE-STALK BEFORE A FIRST DATE

摘要

Sure, trolling for a mate online is easy; but it's also potentially treacherous: On the Internet, you can't tell if a prospective date is a dog. The good news is that Web dating profiles tend to be pretty reliable. Sure, almost everybody lies-but they don't lie by much. A 2007 study by Cornell and Michigan State researchers found that 81 percent of participants who used online dating sites provided false information about how short, old, or heavy they were. The inaccuracies, however, averaged only 1.1 percent of height, 1.5 percent of age, and 5.6 percent of weight-hardly deal-breakers even if you're searching for a towering, young 300-pounder.