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I will stake my reputation that the girl two up from the bottom left corner of blendr is "Good Girl Gina," but the image is flipped or something. For most of the dating apps it's pretty obvious how many accounts are fake.

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That screenshot looks like it's full of professional photos. Either I need to get some better headshots or that's a mock-up made by Blendr.

You do need some better headshots most likely, but that's because any given person on OkCupid likely has terrible, terrible profile pictures.

Good resolution, good lighting, and bright colors. Fixing that can immediately significantly improve response rates (or give a response rate, as the case may be).

I don't have a profile, but i do remember reading a pretty interesting OKCupid blog post correlating response rate to the quality of the camera taking the photo.

Here it is: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/

I don't think you can infer much from that beyond the fairly obvious fact that expensiveness of camera is correlated with interest (and by extension skill) in photography. Unless you control for that, any connection you draw between camera price and perceived attractiveness is bound to be spurious.

That was my exact reaction when I looked at that photo.

If you guys are talking about the pic in his post, that's not the author, that's the actual Elon Musk.

http://media.aerosociety.com/aerospace-insight/2012/11/23/vi...

Not that one, if you go down to the blendr there are shots of their "users." I think he was just showing what Elon Musk looked like to give context to the person he quoted.

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