4 myths of profile pictures

[Cliche]

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/20...file-pictures/

In looking closely at the astonishingly wide variety of ways our users have chosen to represent themselves, we discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. For interested readers, I explain our measurement process, and how we collected our data, at the end of the post. All my bar charts are zeroed on the average picture. Now to the data.

Semi-NSFW, due to some of the profile pictures being of questionable intent. (IE: They cover a section about cleavage and how it results in responses from men, and that the older the chick is, it no longer starts to matter whether they show some skin or not)

[troutman]

# 5 - the subject is at least 10 years older than the profile picture.

[Gozer]

Note to girls, pouty face looking up and away picture is no longer cute and unique.

[fredr123]

oktrends is awesome. The analyses they share are incredibly interesting.