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Dating app data is hard to access, so researchers made their own app

Dating apps collect a lot of useful data from their users that could help researchers better understand love and relationships. But that data isn’t easily accessible.

Now, two researchers at the University of Michigan are using an app that they created to collect that useful data.

Alan Yu from WHYY’s “The Pulse” reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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