#oktrends

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From Oktrends, exploiting sociology to get to know a stranger.

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OkTrends favorites

The last article got me thinking about some of my favorite posts from OkTrends, OkCupid's blog that covers all sorts of interesting data from their huge database of people.

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/

"Okay, if you want to know...

Will my date have sex on the first date?

Ask...

Do you like the taste of beer?

Sadly, this is the only question with a meaningful correlation for women. For men there are a few others:

Q: In a certain light, wouldn't nuclear war be exciting?

'yes'⇒ 83%

Q: Assuming you were in the position to do so, would you launch nuclear weapons under any circumstances?

'yes'⇒82%

Q: Could you imagine yourself killing someone?

'yes'⇒82%"

Jeez, I guess some folks are all-or-nothing. =]

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online-dating/

"Almost universally guys like to add a couple inches. You can also see a more subtle vanity at work: starting at roughly 5' 8", the top of the dotted curve tilts even further rightward. This means that guys as they get closer to six feet round up a bit more than usual, stretching for that coveted psychological benchmark. "

"When we looked into the data for women, we were surprised to see height exaggeration was just as widespread, though without the lurch towards a benchmark height:"

Very true. I'm 5'11.75... the temptation is real!

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/online-dating-advice-exactly-what-to-say-in-a-first-message/ - their most popular article ever.

"Bring up specific interests:

There are many words on the effective end of our list like zombie,band, tattoo, literature, studying, vegetarian (yes!), and metal(double yes!) that are all clearly referencing something important to the sender, the recipient, or, ideally, both."

"If you’re a guy, be self-effacing:

Awkward, sorry, apologize, kinda, and probably all made male messages more successful, yet none of them except sorry affects female messages. As we mentioned before, pretty, no doubt because of its adverbial meaning of “to a fair degree; moderately” also helps male messages. A lot of real-world dating advice tells men to be more confident, but apparently hemming and hawing a little works well online."

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OKCupid Trends

I've had an account on okc for a couple of years and it's always interesting to me when they 'analyze the data'.

OkTrends is original research and insights from OkCupid. We've compiled our observations and statistics from hundreds of millions of OkCupid user interactions, all to explore the data side of the online world.

In this analysis, they ran 3 experiments: Love is Blind, or Should Be; So What's a Picture Worth and The Power of Suggestion.

[urbandater]

A Game of Horomones, OkCupid Experiments...

A Game of Horomones, OkCupid Experiments…

I’ve said it before, the OkTrends blog is a fucking goldmine of information… When they post shit. Their last post was more than a couple of years ago. Naturally the lack of updates is kinda shitty. But who cares, right? It’s OkCupid!

On July 28th OkCupid posted a new article regardingan experiment that they’d been running over there. The article is an informative read, even if it comes off…

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OkTrends really gets me

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People who claim they've NEVER masturbated

Chart #6:

In the Bible, in between the part where Reuben kills a he-goat so he can dip some clothes in the blood of the he-goat and where Judah tries to give Tamar a goat but decides maybe she should be burned to death instead, God kills a man named Onan because Onan intentionally spills his seed on the ground.

(1) Thou shalt not whack off. (2) Mo goats mo problems.

Life lessons! From the Iron Age!

Via OkTrends

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All the data below, even the most personal stuff, has been gleaned from real user activity on OkCupid. Some of it our users have told us outright by answering match questions; some of it we've had to learn from observation.

Chart #2

Here, we took a single question—Is your ideal sex rough or gentle?—and scraped people's profile text for the words that most correlated to each answer. Here are word clouds for women and men in their 20s.

The text is basically Hot Topic versus, I dunno, Burberry. But beyond the words the interesting thing is how men's and women's preferences change with age:

This dataset only includes single people, of course, but I was still very surprised at how many old men like it rough. Looks like I'm going to have to rethink a cherished part of my worldview.

Via OkTrends