Comments on: We Experiment On Human Beings! https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/ The Official Blog of OkCupid.com Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:49:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 By: neha https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/comment-page-25/#comment-236396 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 06:43:17 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=12016#comment-236396 Really this is so interesting to surf such kind of blogs which provides valuable information. Today the blogs and the websites are the best way to spread the knowledge. One of the website i know to get knowledge is web9cloud, where the visitors will be provided with the full fleshed knowledge about php, about development etc. For more information must visit this website.

]]>
By: luanabee https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/comment-page-25/#comment-236048 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:12:05 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=12016#comment-236048 As an OKCupid member, I’m not too offended by this because I’ve got my own standards for who I reply to and who I don’t. I eliminate a lot of clutter by …

(1) paying no attention to who I’m told will be compatible,
(2) responding only to real messages from guys who sound like they’ve read my profile (ignoring winks/likes/etc), and
(3) responding only to guys who post pictures (figuring that *no picture* means they’re hiding something, and partly as a safety precaution, like, how do I recognize them when I show up at the coffee shop?).

These online experiments don’t surprise me. I’ve seen manipulation from sites before–like when your paid membership is just about up, suddenly you have 12 responses to your profile, mostly *winks* from guys without profile pictures. **DELETE** I’ve also seen the news that Match advertisements show profile pictures for people who don’t exist. I pretty much knew that all along.

]]>
By: Danielle https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/comment-page-25/#comment-235901 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 08:33:52 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=12016#comment-235901 Honestly, I could forgive all this if you just reverse all the damage of changing profiles and percentages. I got a lot of creeps and sexual invites which should be banned. I reputed bad/sexual conduct and sexual entrapment. They never removed him or any of the other’s that were highly inappropriate. You tell me that should be fair to other girls? They shouldn’t have to pay for OkCupid not doing what they said they would do. Btw, FYI LADIES…. ZOOSK IS EASY WORSE AND DOES THE SAME BULL CRAP. Whose to say that we didn’t recieve messages from guys that seemed to have an interest but, OkCupid interfered with us recieving their messages?

]]>
By: Danielle https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/comment-page-25/#comment-235889 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 08:05:36 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=12016#comment-235889 I’m not entirely sure you, as OkCupid, read your own graphs right. Your “Personality VS. Looks” graph were never all the same levels. For example, one of the dots far from the 1,000s of dots were no way near the same level. It was close to “3” on the “Personality” portion and like a “4.5” on the “Looks” portion. That’s nowhere near the same thing. Besides that, how exactly do you know if you were apart of this study?

]]>
By: CM https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/comment-page-25/#comment-235778 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 03:31:41 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=12016#comment-235778 I don’t mind the testing. As a matter of fact I am curious about the following stats:
a)How many people left your site after being told that Cupid plays with their minds.
b)Some guys ruin it for everybody by acting and being pervs and asking for sexual pictures the first time they get in touch with somebody: what percentage of men do this?
c)Some profiles are short lived. What is the average life span of a profile?
d)Some girls, to avoid pervs change their names and profiles. How many times they do this?
e)How many replies does a girl get in average? A guy?
f)Incomes by percentage.
g)Race by percentage.
h)Ages by percentage
Also, you should prohibit people that join from other countries. I noticed a lot of Philippines and Asians that live in their respective Countries.

]]>
By: smartass https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/comment-page-25/#comment-235672 Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:36:58 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=12016#comment-235672 and this is why actual intelligent peoples are not concerned at all by the experiment: empty profiles can go suck a lemon, and personnal appreciation matters instead of match percentage……

okcupid is nice enough to do some vague sorting with the percentage, but after reading this article, i’m quite proud to be one of those who would NEVER deny an answer to a low percentage user, and who have initiated conversations with an actual number of those…………………

but i’m pretty sure that user with “hot” pictures get messages from people whom they have 15%compatibility with, yes, i’m talking about you, shocked people in the comments, claiming that the experiment made you refuse to talk to people…… i’m pretty sure you just skipped average-looking people, and not “hot” ones !

]]>
By: nickie https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/comment-page-25/#comment-235670 Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:30:36 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=12016#comment-235670 people’s shallowness is an incredible bias as expected….. i’m losing more faith in humanity -_-

]]>
By: Lizzie https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/comment-page-25/#comment-235342 Sat, 09 Aug 2014 02:44:11 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=12016#comment-235342 Hi,
I just want to let you know that I don’t exactly have much faith on general in the whole matchup thing here. I’m currently seeing someone I met here but not because of the whole system, only because they messaged me and were wiling to do so until I decided to meet them. Maybe I’m just too untrusting. The whole numbers thing makes no sense here really because there just aren’t enough topics that are important involved in learning about someone in real life.

]]>
By: Miriam https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/comment-page-25/#comment-235234 Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:29:18 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=12016#comment-235234 Wow I feel betrayed. I could’ve bin with the one but because I put my faith in the percentage I turned down lots of guys thank u so freakn much >¿<

]]>
By: Not cool https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/comment-page-25/#comment-235225 Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:24:34 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=12016#comment-235225 OKC IS NOT COOL! It’s unethical to screw with people’s lives, lead them to believe that others are a good match when they are not, that they are a bad match when they could be a good one, to change the content of what a user has put in his or her profile, to read a user’s personal messages for the sake of experiments. Feel free to add this paragraph to your profile if you agree.

]]>