October222009
eHarmony 101? »
The Lone Gunman did a great post about the dating site OkCupid, which crunched the numbers, and figured out what to say in a first message to a potential online match that will most likely get your match to return your message. A few:
Avoid physical compliments. Sexy, beautiful, hot and cutie give reply rates from 5–14% less than the average. An example to show this is in how the word pretty is used: as an adjective it results in a response rate 2–7% less than the average, while if it’s used as an adverb it results in an above average rate of response.
Use an unusual greeting. Hi, hey, hello and holla all produced well below average replies. Yo, hola,howdy, what’s up and how’s it going fared much better. In fact, not even using a salutation was better than saying hi.
