I don’t take pictures of myself, and don’t necessarily have a picture hungry friend. It can make it hard to be assertive and message someone. I bet women would generally be presenting themselves (regardless of inate attractiveness) better. I have come to realize that women only look at the pictures. : A Q&A With Aviv Goldgeier, Junior Growth Engineer", "Tinder Experiments II: Guys, unless you are really hot you are probably better off not wasting your time on Tinder — a quantitative socio-economic study". Now let’s take a look at how senders’ and recipients’ attractivenesses affect reply rates, not just the number of messages sent. OkCupid has a mechanism which helps, It’s recommended that one needs to check out their competitors, in whatever field they might be in, and similarly on OkCupid, people need to, If you visit someone’s profile, then they get an alert that you have been, If you think your username is not up to the mark and is. I am most likely a bit older than your largest population by age, but I know these are the factors for most women at most ages used to say these guys are not attractive. I wrote the staff robot and didn’t get a response. Grab Right swipes Right Away. My pictures do not consist of me with my shirt off or something else of that nature. This graph also dramatically illustrates just how much more important a woman’s looks are than a guy’s. We are an 80% match. (Sorry about the graphic language but it is effective short hand for the truth.). flirty? What about measuring how women reply to taller vs shorter men? [For a related analysis by dating app Hinge, see "What's The Biggest Challenge Men Face On Dating Apps? For Tinder, see "Tinder Experiments II: Guys, unless you are really hot you are probably better off not wasting your time on Tinder — a quantitative socio-economic study" —Editor]. Men are less use to being judged by looks. This post has been the preamble to the larger discussion of “what makes a good profile?” We’ve spent a lot of time on OkTrends looking at messages, and since your profile is the other important place you express yourself, we thought it deserved the same treatment. In fact, like women, even more than in than is the case for women, good looking is almost a detractor. I take it back, upon further google searching, that’s all four of the founders. I mean, if men are sending all those messages then straight women are getting approached anyway, right? Should be good. The above featured users have graciously agreed to let me post their pictures, so please don’t make them regret it. I want to quote your post in my blog. We’re going to look at how your photos affect both the messages you get and how successful your own outgoing messages are. I like them the way they are. But despite their fair ratings, they tend to ignore many of the women they find reasonably attractive and primarily target the most attractive females. But with the basic ratings so out-of-whack, the two curves together suggest some strange possibilities for the female thought process, the most salient of which is that the average-looking woman has convinced herself that the vast majority of males aren’t good enough for her, but she then goes right out and messages them anyway. Most women are far more shallow than they want you to think. Personally, i always feel a little odd rating photos on sites like hotornot. All rights reserved. Yes, good looking is a factor in attractiveness, but by no means the only one or even the most important one. Finding someone else who doesn’t mind is another problem. As we did before, I’m going to consolidate the line charts to show just how your attractiveness changes how often your messages get responses. If you really want to meet the most attractive women on OkCupid, you need to take full advantage of the A-List Premium features: #1.