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OKCupid: Our Online Daters Lie About Their Stats
By Brian FairbanksJuly 14th, 2010, 10:19 amComments (3)
Those were OK Cupid's words, not mine.
Actually, they didn't quite come out and say that, but one of the world's biggest online dating sites did have a blog post the other day that essentially broke down their online daters and presented them as they really were: five-foot-one, balding and probably in debt to their moms for last month's rent.
Among the things I learned or confirmed thanks to their story:
-tall guys have all the sex (ed. note: glad I'm tall -- it's hard enough trying to get laid with this unbearable personality)
-people are, on average, two inches shorter in real life (ed. note: but three inches longer when erect -- hey oh!)
-"a 5' 4" woman gets 60 more contacts each year than a six-footer"
-people are, on average, only 80% as rich as they claim to be
-the more appealing the profile pic, the older it probably is
-80% of those who list themselves as interested in men/women are really only interested in one or the other
Read more here for the explanations and some fancy-schmancy graphs.
Commentarium (3 Comments)
I love these OKtrend posts. Granted a lot of this is predictable. I guess even the lying about being bisexual thing is pretty predictable, but I hadn't thought of it before.
sounds like okcupid is more honest than its users
It's really weird because I'm actually COMPLETELY honest with the things I answer (I will not list my income), except for my age (and that's a whole story), and my pictures are usually from within WEEKS. And I get almost no play on OKC. I guess my true, pure awesomeness is just too much to believe.