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In the end OkCupid disabled the feature, and now only allows one global rating to be given. They published their data from when looks and personality were rated individually so others can see how online dating users consider these two factors essentially the same thing. | In the end OkCupid disabled the feature, and now only allows one global rating to be given. They published their data from when looks and personality were rated individually so others can see how online dating users consider these two factors essentially the same thing. | ||
Related to this, OkCupid conducted an unwitting experiment pertaining to the effects of profile pictures on one's success in online dating, and the user perceptions of compatibility based on profile text vs photographs. On January 15, 2013, OkCupid celebrated the release of a new app dealing with blind dates by disabling all profile pictures on OkCupid, which they dubbed “Love Is Blind Day”. They found that while overall traffic declined, users were 44% more willing to message first, conversations were lengthier, and contact details were exchanged more often. However, when they restored the profile pictures after the end of the day, they noticed that many of the conversations starting on the day abruptly finished. This further reinforces the idea that displaying one's personality through profile text and messages on online dating apps in an attempt to compensate for physical unattractiveness is likely a doomed endeavor. | |||
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* ''According to our users, "looks" and "personality" were the same thing.'' | * ''According to our users, "looks" and "personality" were the same thing.'' | ||
* ''And it wasn’t that “looks weren’t important” to the users who’d chosen to stick around. When the photos were restored at 4PM, 2,200 people were in the middle of conversations that had started “blind”. Those conversations melted away. The goodness was gone, in fact worse than gone. It was like we’d turned on the bright lights at the bar at midnight.'' | |||
<span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | ||
* Rudder C. 2014. ''We Experiment On Human Beings!'' OkTrends: Dating Research from OkCupid. [[https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/weexperimentonhumanbeings.html Web]] | * Rudder C. 2014. ''We Experiment On Human Beings!'' OkTrends: Dating Research from OkCupid. [[https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/weexperimentonhumanbeings.html Web]] | ||