I was just thinking last week about what an explosive set of data Tinder is sitting on. Do they have people studying the data to determine who the most beautiful people are, who is the ugliest, and are such distinctions broken down by race, religion, ethnicity? It’s an ugly thought but it seems impossible that someone, rogue employee or sanctioned analyst, has framed photos on their desk of Tinder’s most bombshell beautiful individuals and is surreptitiously working to get those two people together.
DATA!
The analysis of data in this post is somewhat lost on me, so my instinct that the analyst approached it with a foregone conclusion starting from the headline is only that, a hunch. Still, assuming it holds up to scrutiny, it is not a remotely surprising conclusion based on my time wasted with Tinder and similar apps. A friend of mine encouraged me to try Tinder after saying his buddy from school was scoring with babes seemingly every single day. My response was unequivocal: The friend he was referring to happens to be an extremely good looking guy. That is the only shit that floats in those waters.
Source: Tinder Experiments II: Guys, unless you are really hot you are probably better off not wasting your…
