[Noisebridge-discuss] OKCupid: how to get a response

[Gian Pablo Villamil]

A friend of mine did this experiment in 2004:

http://www.very-appealing.com/cj/CLCrack/

Basically the ad for the 'guy' received as many responses in a week as
the 'girl' did in 20 minutes.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:
> I wonder what that 'maximally bad' ad was like...
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> ... and you're still replying offlist, AFAICT unintentionally.
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> - Sai
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> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Peter Hamel <hamelp at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I liked the statistics. Freakonomics quotes a few stats in it, from another survey. Mostly, they confirmed the stereotypes that women are primarily looking for money and men are primarily looking for beauty, and people rarely ever reply to ads without pictures attached. The only fact I remember off the top of my head was that blond hair is as valuable to a woman as a college degree (in terms of the wealth of a mate she can attract).
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>> I've also posted quite a few fake Craigslist ads in my life, for my own "research", but the main thing I determined was that's it's very difficult for a man to get a response, no matter how good his ad is, and that women will get dozens of replies, no matter how bad the ad is. My attempt to describe a woman sufficiently undesirable that no one would date her was very fun, though...
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