Comments on: What makes a successful online dating photo?

By: jerry

jerry — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:25:52 +0000

Interesting, and beautifull website but wouldn’t it have made more sense to use picture examples (cropped or resized) as the bar charts?

By: Getting a Girl Guy

Getting a Girl Guy — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:02:04 +0000

Wow, there really some interesting responses to this post. Dolphins? Who would’ve thought? I agree with Valerie – smiling is always a good approach.

By: Mork

Mork — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:44:16 +0000

One of the big seduction gurus once noted that his students got extremely high responses with pictures of them with dolphins.

By: CJR

CJR — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:28:56 +0000

You must remember that OK Cupid is basically full of broke, polyamorous, wannabe artists, writers, musicians and grad students.

…painting with a broad brush obviously. But I’m guessing what works on that site, is different then what works on a site like E-Harmony or Match.com which are considered to be more “conservative”.

Cool stuff nonetheless. The OK Cupid folks do a good job at trying to visually represent their data and get people thinking. Check out the heat-map they developed that is connected to sexual preferences!

By: vicki

vicki — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:12:23 +0000

I agree with Zhatt… having bars above and below the mean/median (I assume) implies positive *and* negative values… and having a smaller number with a larger bar confuses the matter in a way that the graduated color scheme just can’t make up for.
But I love most of the rest of your stuff and envy your job (or “job” as it may be)

By: Valerie

Valerie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:52:46 +0000

How very interesting! I make a point of skipping over profiles of men “mysteriously looking away from camera, unsmiling, holding an animal” and engaged in other profound things. The man who won my heart had a smiling picture of himself doing nothing very “interesting.”

By: Jonny

Jonny — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:44:58 +0000

Women are just as rotten as men. It should come as no surprise to any guy when you’re kind to a woman and she doesn’t even care. For all you know she could think you’re fishing for approval, which smacks of either fear or intuition. But perhaps you really are fishing for approval, which is why you’re just as rotten.

So, the best thing to do is to party like its your last day on this rock and invest your time and energy into whatever makes the most sense to you. But don’t expect to get a woman, get married, and have kids. Sometimes natural selection decides you’re not worthy of producing offspring and you need to be whittled out of the human race. That’s beyond your control, no point in trying to get your own way here, just roll with the punches and see what happens. No point in deciding for nature that you should die a virgin, let nature decide on her own, she’s pretty smart I’ve found. Kicked my butt around the block a few times anyways.

By the way, Richie M has the right idea. The rest of you pay attention to Richie M’s comment, study it, over-analyze it, enter into it, feel the circle of life all around you. And all that B.S.

By: Richie M

Richie M — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:57:07 +0000

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By: Zhatt

Zhatt — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:22:00 +0000

I don’t understand why they’re drawing the baseline where they are. For example, in the graph above, the bars are starting at about just below the 6 mark and the bottom of the graph is cropped at 4. Apparently with travel photos you can meet women 4 out of 10 times, but the bar on graph is showing it as the most negative possible value. A negative value doesn’t make sense in this context.