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<span style="font-size:125%">'''Discussion:'''</span>
<span style="font-size:125%">'''Discussion:'''</span>
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.
<span style="font-size:125%">'''Figures:'''</span>
[[File:OK Cupid Looks Personality.png|300px|thumb|none|OkCupid's data showing personality ratings vs. looks ratings of profiles which demonstrate almost perfect 1:1 correlation]]
<span style="font-size:125%">'''Quotes:'''</span>
* ''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>
* Rudder C. 2014. ''We Experiment On Human Beings!'' OkTrends: Dating Research from OkCupid. [[https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/weexperimentonhumanbeings.html Web]]


When speaking of the challenges that being an unattractive man poses in dating, many women are unsympathetic and cannot understand how being unattractive as a man could be so detrimental to success. Research suggests this may be because women do not suffer the same disadvantages from being unattractive, and thus have no personal reference for understanding the struggles of unattractive men. This is a cognitive bias known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_gap hot-cold empathy gap].
When speaking of the challenges that being an unattractive man poses in dating, many women are unsympathetic and cannot understand how being unattractive as a man could be so detrimental to success. Research suggests this may be because women do not suffer the same disadvantages from being unattractive, and thus have no personal reference for understanding the struggles of unattractive men. This is a cognitive bias known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_gap hot-cold empathy gap].
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