Dating Argument Analysis

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I think that the most convince argument was presented but a side that was arguing against the motion. All the numbers they presented and how they connected it with biology. Qualitatively, people don't think that dating apps are killing the romance. Pew Research surveyed 55 percent of people who don't use dating apps and they think that they're good. A lot of people who do use them - 80 percent - think that they're a good way to meet people. Quantitatively, people are still forming relationships and getting together. Over 40 percent of relationships today and over a third of marriages are due to dating apps. Technology cannot change the structure of brains and how we react to things. Whether it’s a dating app or not we feel romance in our

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