Do attractive people write better online dating profiles?
"A new study of dating sites suggests attractive men also write the best biographies. Tell us what draws you to seek out a date."
I found this article that states that attractive people write better online dating profiles.I can only surmise that attractive people write better profile because they brim with self confidence.They only portray what researchers have been finding all along: attractive people are considered for better jobs,get more promotions and are generally favored by their friends and co-workers.Is it not unfair that when writing about themselves they can write a better online dating profile?
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For those who have found getting a date by traditional methods tough, taking the quest for a partner online has appeared a modern boon: simply choose your most flattering picture and write an engaging biography in the hope that some anonymous browser will get in touch. But those Cyranos who hope that the world of online dating may give the wordsmiths the edge over the fair of face (or short of nose) are due for further heartbreak if recent research is anything to go by. Academics at Villanova University in Philadelphia have found that more physically attractive men are also able to write more attractive online biographies. The researchers asked 100 women to assess 25 online dating photographs on physical attractiveness, and then to separately assess the 25 biographies on how kind, confident, intelligent or humorous they seemed. The results were conclusive: "The overall attractiveness of the photo was positively correlated with the overall attractiveness of the text. In other words, those who are physically attractive also write more appealing profiles." Do you date online? Are you drawn to people primarily through their biographies rather than their photograph? And do you agree that physically attractive users are more able to communicate their personalities online?" The questions that are asked at the end of this article are of concern to the "middle class"looker .Will I have to be content to not attract the Brad Pitts of the online dating scene?Or will I write a killer online dating profile because I have the X- factor?
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