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The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures

To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things:     * Facial Attitude. Is the person smiling? Staring straight ahead? Doing that flirty lip-pursing thing?     * Photo Context. Is there alcohol? Is there a pet? Is the photo outdoors? Is it in a bedroom?     * Skin. How much skin is the person showing? How much face? How much breasts? How much ripped abs?

“ This finding led us to investigate a controversial women-only subset of the self-shot picture: the universally maligned “MySpace Shot,” taken by holding your camera above your head and being just so darn coy. We were sure that everyone thought these pictures were kinda lame. In fact, the prospect of producing hard data on just how lame got us all excited. But we were so wrong. ”