Let me do this!
OkCupid is a dating site, but they have an awesome blog that breaks down some really interesting demographics of its users.
They’ve done some really interesting research about things like
Your Race Affects Whether People Write You Back
Rape Fantasies and Hygiene by State
and Flowchart to My Heart
but the one up now I really like and is called The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures.
It looks at users’ profile pictures compared to how many unsolicited messages they received and how often their initial messages were replied to. This is basically the most interesting kind of research in the world to me, and I hope I can find a way to wrap this stuff up under the guise of “customer behavior” to get a cool job analyzing what makes people act on some things but not others.
Anyway, I won’t go in to all of the findings (they do a good job summarizing it all, give them the web traffic) but needless to say I’m pretty sure this MS Paint re-enactment would be the greatest profile picture of all time.
1. Looking off into the distance. Not smiling. Not showing full face. OMG SO MYSTERIOUS!!
2. Really ripped abs. Obvious.
3. Animals. Girls dig animals apparently.
4. Silver medal. What for? No idea. Shows your interesting and can talk about stuff.
There you go guys. A fool-proof plan for scoring all the chicks you can imagine on OkCupid.
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