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It has been suggested that speed dating was invented by an American Rabbi interested in helping Los Angeles Jews meet each other. “Customers” had 10–25 four-minute dates, after which they had a binary question: yes or no. Two yeses meant a date and a more traditional meeting was arranged.
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Furnham, A. (2011). Blind dates and speed dating. In: Managing People in a Downturn. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307209_7
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