What do we do? We help people get more and better matches online, by providing feedback on their photos. Specifically, we provide a judgement-free experience for users to find out how to look even better in their photos.
It may be blatantly obvious, but for the avoidance of doubt, our user base consists of mostly male users.
To illustrate this further, it takes us 7 days to collect enough ratings to get a man enough votes to have statistically significant results. For a woman, that number is 3 days.
55% of our male users indicated that they were just looking for hook-ups and were using Tinder.
Our users are mostrly under 35, but don't let this discourage you! All ages are welcome.
Our female users usually join for validation and not to get matches. That is our assumption at least.
We know, this is all a sensitive topic, and we're not shining the light on what is arguably one of humanity's flaws. We want to present our findings plain and simple, but do so in a respectful way. This document does not pretend to represent any or all individuals views on beauty and attraction but is an average of the ratings of our users. There is a subtle but important difference between those two things.
Beauty is subjective, and you will find that what one person likes in a picture, another one doesn't like. That must be recognised. There are, however, of course, patterns, and that's what we're here to shine a light on.
We're not about judging people. We're about providing the best environment for our members to find what they're looking for in online dating. We truly believe the small part we play in the dating puzzle can help our members find love. We're all about providing for that moment when you fall in love with someone if you can still remember that feeling?
What we can see from our users is that they certainly fit into the WEIRD category. Whether they're weird or not we shall not say, but the majority are certainly from White, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic nations. As such, don't take this to represent the entire world's average views.
Before we go any further, let's agree on a few basics. We're simply presenting our votes. We're also, not so simply, implying conclusions that you may want to draw from this data.
The data has been gathered from our members. We have not trained them to view beauty in any particular way, so your mileage may vary. Categorization of our photos is then done by our AI which currently has a very high specificity.
Do sunglasses make you look really look fashionable and cool?
Is mysterious better than friendly? Let's find out!
For everyone, no matter what you have under that hat. Right or wrong?
Bear with us one second. To really find out, we need to select users who wear glasses in one photo and don't in another. All other aspects of the photos do not make a difference, for now, they should even out with our data.
Our dataset is becoming smaller as we do this, so our statistical significance reduces drastically. This is all still very interesting though.
There is no denying that men like to wear sunglasses in their profile pictures. Initially, isn't it a shame that you can't see their eyes? What does our data say?
Well, the difference in percieved beauty is negigable. But whether women would swipe you right when you wear those shades? Huge difference!
It is also interesting to discuss that men who wear sunglasses in at least one of their photos are on average more good-looking than men who have no photos with them in sunglasses.
What do you think? To smile or not to smile? This has been debated infinitely, by our friends at OKCupid and Photofeeler. We have to admit that our users may be a limited representation of humanity's views on the matter, but we hope you find our insights useful nonetheless.
Receding hairline... Of our members who wear a hat in one photo, and don't in another, who also have a receding hairline, we've found some interesting data. You may think we've sliced our data up twice now, and it's becoming thin, but what we find is that users wearing hats very often have a receding hairline. Our members are conciously, or subconciously, testing exactly this.
It's a bold claim to say that our members with receding hairlines wear hats because of it, but please just go with it for now.
I'm glad you made it this far! This is a lot to take in. If you are interested in our raw data, please get in touch, we'd love for more people to use it and draw even more deep conclusions on it. For our members integrity, we do not share their photos. Our AI is one of the most powerful image recognitions in the world from what we can tell.
Find out what women say about beards
That moody look into the distance. Yay or nay?
What do you want us to discuss? Let us know at data@datenhance.com.
