Meet America's pickiest daters

Memo to Brooklyn dudes: It's time to up your game

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At times, it may seem like you're living in a cold, heartless world where you'll never find true love. Or you may just live in Brooklyn.

A new survey from the dating website AYI (which stands for "Are You Interested?") has concluded that women from Brooklyn are the least likely to respond to messages from potential suitors. AYI analyzed 435,000 interactions with women between the ages of 18 to 99, and discovered what many flannel-shirted men already know: The single ladies of Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Crown Heights are hard to win over. Just quoting your favorite Bon Iver lyric or inviting them to play skeeball in your local organic gastropub isn't going to cut it.

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Emily Shire is chief researcher for The Week magazine. She has written about pop culture, religion, and women and gender issues at publications including Slate, The Forward, and Jewcy.