Man asks dates to rate him with an exit survey

Google program supervisor Devon Loucks is maintaining observe of all his sizzling dates with a web-based exit survey.
Helayne Seidman

He’s a ghost buster.

As a substitute of giving first dates a peck on the cheek or instructions to the closest subway station, Google program supervisor Devon Loucks offers them 4 pages of paperwork — a web-based exit survey to fee his efficiency.

Loucks, 27, moved to New York Metropolis just a little over a 12 months in the past from San Francisco for work and was having little luck amid an overhyped sizzling vax summer time. After six months of getting ghosted — radio silence after a date with zero reason why — and failed meet-ups, he determined to take a extra scientific method.

“I’ve created this survey to assist replicate on our relationship expertise and permit you the prospect to pinpoint highlights and lowlights all through our time collectively,” his survey reads.

On the high of an inventory of 10 questions and statements, Loucks has girls fee how a lot they loved their time on the date on a scale of 1 to 5.

He then asks respondents to grade extra particular particulars, reminiscent of whether or not they loved their conversations that night and their opinions on him as a number at his dwelling, or why they didn't return to his residence. 

“Some ladies didn’t like the concept of a survey in any respect,” he stated. “Others had been like, ‘Oh, my God, that is iconic.’”

One girl who stuffed out the shape complained about their first-date venue — a loud English-style tavern in Kips Bay.

“You took me to a f—ing gap within the wall. Why would any lady wish to go there on a primary date?” one girl responded.

One assertion on the survey asks girls in the event that they “loved the vibe that Devon curated at his home.”

After that “I began branching out,” he stated. “I’d do artwork museums, any occasions that had been occurring in New York, and picnic dates.” 

New York Metropolis relationship coach Amy Nobile stated she was a fan of Loucks’ unconventional software for navigating the trendy relationship scene, noting that the method demonstrates to others that an individual is severe about self-improvement and in addition discovering a dedicated companion. 

“It definitely indicators to somebody … that like, wow, this individual cares, and he actually desires to turn out to be the perfect model of himself,” Nobile stated. 

The survey has finally been successful for the data-driven Don Juan.

Devon Loucks began a web-based exit survey after being ghosted too many instances.

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For the previous few weeks, Loucks has been repeatedly seeing a girl, Mya Dominique, a gymnast, who stuffed out one in every of his surveys. 

She gave him high scores for each query, and wrote within the suggestions field that “If I may put a ten for query quantity 2” — how doubtless she could be to go on one other date with Loucks — “I'd.”

Dominique advised the Publish that Loucks’ uncommon request positively helped her resolve to go on a second date with him. 

Devon Loucks efficiently received a second date with a girl who rated him excessive on his survey.

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“It simply made me notice you cared sufficient concerning the date to need suggestions about it,” she stated.