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Speed dating: 10 facts you didn't know
1. Speed dating known to us today appeared in the USA in 1998 as meetings for Jewish girls and boys. They were organized by Rabbi Jacob Dayo with his wife. The basis was the old tradition of helping single Jews to meet people of the same faith.
2. During speed dating, men and women sit at tables either alone or four, depending on the format of the evening. Every 5-7 minutes, the pairs change. During the conversation, you can mark the number of the interlocutor in the sympathy card, and if your sympathy is mutual, the organizers will share this person’s contacts with you. No one bothers to exchange phones right at the table, of course, if the partner agrees to this.
3. According to organizers of speed dating, smiling and cheerful men are popular among women. The latter prefer mysterious strangers surrounded by mystery and understatement. It is interesting that on the first date, a man makes up his impression of 55% in appearance and body language of a woman, 38% in voice and manner of speech, and only 7% in terms of what the interlocutor actually said.
4. It is believed that there is no specific type of people who attend speed dating. Here you can meet representatives of various professions, people with different characters, social statuses, interests and outlooks on life.
5. The largest number of speed dating evening took place in Canada in 2014. 651 people attended this event, and the evening itself entered the Guinness Book of Records.
6. According to this source, women are 30% more likely to participate in quick dates. However, men who have at least once tried speed dating continue to attend such evenings 30% more often than ladies. Overall, 95% of men and 80% of women respond to their speed date.
7. In New York, the largest metropolis in the world, about 100 speed dating meetings are held monthly.
8. If you decide to go to speed dating again, the probability of meeting someone from last night in a big city is less than 1%. If this still happened, you should not be upset: you will spend no more than seven minutes on communication.
9. If you are in doubt whether to choose only one person from all the participants in the evening, let’s tell you: choose several. The organizers advise celebrating everybody you like because no one knows whether that single interlocutor or interlocutor will reciprocate.
10. In recent years, the format of Speed Dating in large cities has expanded. It is used at business events, exhibitions and conferences, there are "dates" for startups and investors, B2B and so on.
