I Only Date Guys Over 6'2" Who Are Half White, One-Quarter Asian and One-Quarter African-American

A fun little article on an economic/psychological study of dating. I have no insights to offer, but this is the most interesting part to me:

Women of all the races we studied revealed a strong preference for men of their own race: White women were more likely to choose white men; black women preferred black men; East Asian women preferred East Asian men; Hispanic women preferred Hispanic men. But men don't seem to discriminate based on race when it comes to dating. A woman's race had no effect on the men's choices.

Two wrinkles on this: We found no evidence of the stereotype of a white male preference for East Asian women. However, we also found that East Asian women did not discriminate against white men (only against black and Hispanic men). As a result, the white man-Asian woman pairing was the most common form of interracial dating—but because of the women's neutrality, not the men's pronounced preference.

These findings don't surprise me as much as they did the researchers. But I'm glad that my fetish for Asian ladies eating ice cream cones doesn't seem so creepy now.