A study suggests that people that drink beer are more likely to sleep with someone the first time out with them.  Beer drinkers are 60 percent more likely to engage in sexual relations than people who don’t .  Hit the jump for more details on the survey and answers to other curious questions.

Steph Bassanini

Want to know if your date will have sex on the first date? There’s one way to find out – ask if they like beer.
Interested in a long-term relationship? Find out if they would like to live on a boat or enjoy horror films.
These are the surprising simple questions that can tell you the most about a potential partner, according to the founder of a dating website.
Both men and women who enjoy a pint are 60 per cent more likely to sleep with someone early in a relationship, statistics show.
This applies to both gay and straight people, according to Christian Rudder, a Harvard graduate who set up dating website OKCupid.

After analysing the profiles and interactions of hundreds of millions of users, Mr Rudder found that beer-drinking was the most useful indicator of whether people are likely to have casual sex.
He also found the three questions that best predicted whether couples would actually go on to have a long-term relationship.

While many people thought the best questions to ask would be about someone’s views on sex, smoking and God, he found that you could predict compatibility more than twice as well by asking these three questions:

1) Wouldn’t it be fun to chuck it all and go live on a sailboat? 

2) Do you like horror movies?  

3) Have you ever travelled around another country alone?

Mr Rudder’s data suggests that compatibility on sensation-seeking may be even more important than compatibility on religion, sex, and smoking, observed Psychology Today.

The maths graduate also looked at how a woman’s way of describing her body correlates with self-confidence and sex drive.

He discovered that woman’s sex drive rises dramatically until her late 30s, then drops just as dramatically, whereas her self-confidence steadily rises with age. 

Women who said they were ‘curvy’ were more interested in sex, and more self-confident, than women who said they were ‘skinny’ – a trend that applies across all ages.

His blog also contains graphs that show that women who don’t like exercise are twice as likely to have trouble achieving orgasm than women who do; that frequent tweeters have shorter real-life relationships than everyone else; and that people living in richer areas are more likely to want casual sex.

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