"This week we will be confronting a fact that, by definition, haunts the average online dater: no matter how much time you spend polishing your profile, honing your IM banter, and perfecting your message introductions, it’s your picture that matters most."
- Jim Norris
from Bookmarklet
Interestingly enough, I could pick out the cute girls, but could find no discernible trend for attractiveness of the guys.
- Clare Dibble
But note, even the ugliest guy writing the most attractive woman has a 10+% response rate! (Presumably many of the responses are polite "no thanks". Also surely there's some background level of social non-flirtatious messaging.)
- ⓞnor
Do they have a "net worth" statistic for guys? I wonder what response rate that would generate. :-)
- Piaw Na
With socnets exploding who still uses online dating sites? Twitter and Facebook FTW.
- Mona Nomura
Mona: How could you possibly use Twitter to meet people?
- Gabe
Twitter: Tweetups, conferences, CCing people on Tweets. Facebook: tagging, commenting, etc., etc. I've actually introduced a few friends via photo tagging to name a few :) Ted. LOL.
- Mona Nomura
re "it's your pic that matters most!" Exactly, and that's why you should use a pic of someone else. (Er, I mean, unless you yourself are fantastic looking)
- j1m
Mona, not everyone has your luck getting asked out just from hanging out on Twitter & FB...
- Spidra Webster
There's no such thing as luck - I make my own luck. ;)
- Mona Nomura
It has nothing to do with photos - most of my avatars are ridiculous. The one I'm using right now on FF looks like a melted mini-fig and my Facebook photo was my 4th grade yearbook picture for a long time. Photoshopped Barbizon photos of yourselves 1. makes you look like you're trying too hard and 2. why would you want to attract someone who adds (friends?) you for the way you look anyway?
- Mona Nomura
The one thing I wish the OKcupid blogger had addressed was about the ranking of guy's photos - are most guys hideous? Is male attractiveness severely not normally distributed?
- Andrew C
Note the pictures of (what to me look like) perfectly decent-looking guys who were rated low. It would be interesting to see how female perception of male attractiveness is itself distributed for a particular photo, and also how much of it is photo presentation and how much is "native" attractiveness (which you'd measure by, I dunno, calling people in for a professional makeover and photo shoot?).
- ⓞnor
That wouldn't really be "native", would it?
- Andrew C
How many comments would this post have gotten if the picture posted was of one of the "medium" attractive girls? Hmmm
- Christopher Chung
But yes, standardized presentation would help. Actually, I thought psychologists did use that to measure attractiveness. (total sidebar:averaging out photos of average-looking people produces a composite that is probably a good bit more attractive than any individual component since the averaging process itself smooths out "flaws".)
- Andrew C
I probably would have ranked the "medium" girls within a point of the "highly attractive" ones... BTW, I didn't even notice this till now, but there are l'il JS links to display attractive and average guys instead of girls.
- Andrew C
"In order to determine the valuation of companies, Bhatnagar typically applies the following formula: [(Twitter followers x Facebook fans) + (# of employees x 1000)] x (RSS subscribers + daily page views) + (monthly burn rate x Google’s stock price)2 and then doubles if it they use Ruby on Rails or if the CEO has run a business into the ground before."
- Igor Sereda
Конечно, смешно подловили. Но сегодня увидел работу одного ДПС-ника на перекрестке у Пионерской - приятно наблюдать за профессиональной работой. Один справлялся с ситуацией, с которой двумя днями ранее не могли справиться двое (или трое). :-)
- Slava Yamov
Gah: reCAPTCHA used to benefit the Internet Archive.
- Deborah Fitchett
Deborah, might they allow that relationship to continue? I haven't read any news on this yet, but we can hope.
- Laura Norvig
recaptcha.net used to mention the IA; now it doesn't. OTOH it does mention the NYTimes archive so maybe they got bored with the IA even before Google bought them? I hope they do continue with benefitting free-as-in-*free* sources, though; that was to my mind the whole coolness factor.
- Deborah Fitchett
Спросили у ребе: «Где в Торе написано, что нужно носить ермолку?». «Ну, это проще простого, - ответил ребе, - ведь сказано: «И пошел Авраhам». Разве Вы можете представить себе, что Авраhам ходил с непокрытой головой?!»
о разметке поля опять ничего, а это же самое загадочное. то ли у них решётка кустов супер-ровная, и можно "считать пиксели", то ли по gps выставить ключевые точки.
- 9000