BOSTON GLOBE – Aug 22 - OKCupid has begun publishing statistics about its users’ behavior on its blog OKTrends, and using the numbers to generate real-world advice. For example: Men get more responses from women if they don’t smile in their profile pictures and women are more likely than men to send messages to people they don’t find attractive. The blog has also uncovered some trends about lying: All users add an average of two inches to their height and a 20% raise in salary. OKCupid can also analyze user communications to see what works and what doesn’t. The word choices most likely to kill your chances of getting a reply are bad grammar and “netspeak,” like saying “ur” for “your.” Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist, used data from a different website to analyze which attributes determine the success of men and women in getting responses from the opposite sex. For both sexes, the attractiveness of the photo was the most important trait. Beyond that, men’s height was the most important feature to women. FULL ARTICLE @ BOSTON GLOBE
