Your race matters. For men, white men have the best chance of getting a response online, while Indian men have the worst. Among women, those from the Middle East receive the most responses, while black women receive the least. These are some of the not always politically correct conclusions drawn by statisticians at OkCupid, a free dating site founded by a group of Harvard graduates with degrees in mathematics. The site, which has been around for five years, has a million active users. Earlier this year, the site created a blog where it publishes research findings based on data collected on the site, similar to Google. Here are some examples of what the data shows so far. The numbers also show that attractiveness is not blind to skin color. Among men, white men receive the most responses (29% of cases) and respond the least (40%). Indian men are the least fortunate, receiving responses in only 20% of cases. Among women, black women are most likely to respond to men (34%), but least likely to receive a response if they initiate contact (34%). Women from the Middle East receive responses in almost half of cases, the highest rate of any ethnic group. And although white men are the most selective when it comes to who they respond to, they are most likely to respond to women from the Middle East (47% of cases compared to the overall response rate of 40%). In almost all cases, white people are perceived as the most attractive group. More data in the source article.