We now know that music is a great conversation starter, and it can be a real mood-booster for singles as they navigate dating, but did you also know that a love for music increases your chances of love? We have the data to prove it. So update your OkCupid profile to share your musical preferences and increase your chances of likes, find a match, and set up a virtual date.
Download OkCupid now. Learn how to set up a great online dating profile, get the latest on new dating app features, and more on the OkCupid blog. Sign in. Music Lovers Get More Love. OkCupid Follow. Matching over music is important to singles. Music Love Dating Relationships Covid OkCupid Dating Blog Follow. For seven hours in January , OkCupid removed all the pictures from the app and found people actually interacted more. But when the photos returned, the conversations of the 2, people who were on "blind dates" disappeared.
In its privacy policy, OkCupid states it may use your information for research and analysis. One person tweeted he was deleting his OkCupid account. Another tweeted, "Nice to know I can blame all those bad dates on someone else. Thanks, OKCupid, for messing with us. Facebook Twitter Email. Further experiments suggested that "when we tell people they are a good match, they act as if they are. Even when they should be wrong for each other. In another experiment, OKCupid ran profiles with pictures and no profile text for half of its test subjects, and vice versa for the rest.
The results showed that people responded solely to the pictures. For potential daters, Mr Rudder said that "your actual words are worth… almost nothing". The revelations come as a result of Facebook saying that in late June, it changed some "news feeds to control which emotional expressions the users were exposed to" as part of research in collaboration with two US universities. Many users and observers felt the actions were unethical. OKCupid said that experiments like the ones that it and Facebook ran are part and parcel of creating websites.
Even good ideas could be better. Experiments are how you sort all this out.
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