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blog.okcupid.com is the company blog at blog.okcupid.com, writing about data and culture. Since 2009, 140 different Hacker News readers have linked it 177 times, most often “Your Looks and Online Dating (2009)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 8 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the OkCupid blog (OkTrends) for analysis of its own dating data, such as attractiveness ratings, photo quality, race and attraction, and messaging patterns.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Your Looks and Online Dating (2009)15 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2010-10-12
- /14 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2010-07-09
- How your race affects the messages you get10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2011-06-20
- Don't Be Ugly By Accident9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2010-08-10
- The Biggest Lies in Online Dating8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-07-24
- /index.php/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-08-10
- Race and Attraction, 2009 – 20147 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-09-10
- The Best Questions For A First Date6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-02-08
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-06-27
- Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-04-19
What Hacker News says?
There seems to be a large divergence between women's spoken preferences and observed preferences. It's like my very sympathetic female friend who says she would date a short guy, while she never has. My sister says plenty of women like asian men, while she has only dated white men. Women roundly ridicule men's shirtless photos on dating sites, except OkCupid showed that these photos attract women very effectively: h…
Comment linking /index.php/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/
on “My positive experience as a woman in tech”Submitted We Experiment On Human Beings as a story · 367 points
HN discussionMandatory link to http://blog.okcupid.com/ Less story, more analysis.
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on “How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love”Submitted The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures as a story · 357 points
HN discussionBeing average looking should land you the most responses: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/page/14/
Comment linking /index.php/page/14/
on “Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces”Submitted Your looks and your inbox as a story · 315 points
HN discussion> ...in North America, Black females, like Asian men, have a harder time in the dating scene data to back this up: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/race-attraction-2009-2014/
Comment linking /index.php/race-attraction-2009-2014/
on “Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors”Submitted OkTrends: Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex as a story · 205 points
HN discussionAs a conventionally unattractive guy (short, non-white), Tinder has been abysmal for me. Match rate of 2/500 swipes, back when the auto-swipe apps worked. And then most of the most matches were horrifically unattractive. OkCupid produced vastly higher quality matches for me, probably because the profile text and questions let me expand on my personality more. I used the same photos on both profiles. Tinder seems onl…
Comment linking /index.php/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/
on “Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness' Couple”Submitted The Real ‘Stuff White People Like’ as a story · 204 points
HN discussion> http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-bei... I found the referenced article to OkCupid rather interesting. It seems that if you can block people from visually seeing each other, until the actual blind date, then even very attractive women report having a great time with very plain men. So it seems that while people will almost invariably filter and match each other on looks if that option is ope…
Comment linking /index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/
on “Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness' Couple”Submitted Race and Attraction, 2009 – 2014 as a story · 173 points
HN discussionDude... were talking online here. Everybody is 7 foot high jock on teh internetz[1]. Everybody is lying and people discount for that. So unless you lie a bit you started loosing your ground even if you are otherwise the tallest building . Take your moralism somewhere else - cuz. this is teh internetz (and its serious business too!) You remind me of people who keep whining about cheezy tactics in games - they are the…
Comment linking /index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online-dating/
on “Dating Denial of Service attack”Submitted Don't Be Ugly By Accident as a story · 172 points
HN discussionSomeone else posted this in another comment: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/page/7/ It turns out photo quality, and even which camera you used, matters a lot.
Comment linking /index.php/page/7/
on “We Experiment On Human Beings”Submitted How Races and Religions Match in Online Dating as a story · 160 points
HN discussionAccording to this research done by the okcupid guys here: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/page/7/ "The flash adds 7 years" "The type and brand of camera you use has a huge effect on how good you look in your pictures." "There are peak times of the day to take a good picture." ala you are more attractive in photos taken at sunrise and sunset. Between that blog entry and the other ones on the topic the conclusion re…
Comment linking /index.php/page/7/
on “We Experiment On Human Beings”Submitted Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message as a story · 155 points
HN discussion> I guess his book writing got in the way of blogging. There were a number of factors (which I've explained elsewhere in my comment history). That's part of it, but another factor was that, in 2010, there were 2.5 people working full-time[0] on doing research for OkTrends. The blog posts took a lot of work. "The Real Stuff White People Like"[1] took almost two months of my time, plus some from Max and Christian as w…
Comment linking /index.php/the-real-stuff-white-people-like/
on “We Experiment On Human Beings”Submitted The Mathematics Of Beauty as a story · 109 points
HN discussionSince I can't edit, here are some more details on what OkCupid does http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/page/3/
Comment linking /index.php/page/3/
on “8^8 – Find another you”Submitted The Case For An Older Woman as a story · 103 points
HN discussionNot exactly highbrow research, but OkCupid has an interesting post indicating that black women are less likely to get replies in their online dating service: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-...
Comment linking /index.php/your-race-affects-whether-people-write-you-back/
on “1.5 Million Missing Black Men”Submitted Mapping OKCupid answer data: rape fantasies and hygiene by state as a story · 98 points
HN discussionCounterpoint: OK Cupid ratings appear to show that black men suffer rather less in the attractiveness stakes vs black women. http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/race-attraction-2009-2014/ . If you see more black men + white women combos, those statistics would seem to suggest that it's because (for whatever reason) white men aren't as interested in black women as white women are in black men.
Comment linking /index.php/race-attraction-2009-2014/
on “1.5 Million Missing Black Men”Submitted OKCupid: The Big Lies People Tell In Online Dating as a story · 84 points
HN discussionOk cupid suggest that black women are rather likely to answer back to white men who write to her ( http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-... ), moreso than black men who write to her.
Comment linking /index.php/your-race-affects-whether-people-write-you-back/
on “1.5 Million Missing Black Men”Submitted How To Get People To Reply To Your Messages In Online Dating, Part I as a story · 81 points
HN discussionActually you are wrong in this specific case. Okcupid has the data ( http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-... ) which shows that black women are more likely to reply to men now of her own race (and white men are almost at the top).
Comment linking /index.php/your-race-affects-whether-people-write-you-back/
on “1.5 Million Missing Black Men”Submitted Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating as a story · 66 points
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