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DanArmak comments on Why humans suck: Ratings of personality conditioned on looks, profile, and reported match - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanArmak 10 August 2014 08:09:31AM 4 points [-]

They've previously published that first-messaging rates are drastically lower for profiles without pictures. IIRC even pretty bad pictures are better than no pictures at all. That would be a huge confounder.