The National Population and Talent Division held an online survey this year to look at attitudes towards dating in Singapore. SMU Associate Professor of Psychology Norman Li, whose research interests include mate preferences and mate value said, “We would like to find somebody who we think is a really good choice, but when we have so much of a selection, it's almost impossible to find somebody who is better than all the other ones.” While he agreed that working Singaporeans lead busy lives, he questioned how much of that "busyness" is necessary, and said that singles who meet someone online should try to meet the other party in person as soon as possible, instead of “chatting with hundreds of people” all the time and never meeting anybody.