Sure, online daters can list vague specifications about things like height and body type preferences, and of course most of us are guilty of spending more time on photos
than profile essays, but matchmaking formulas give very little weight to attraction.
Not exact matches
Match.com has more
than 50
profiles with parts of Mr. Gallagher's college entrance
essay.
I was also able to find more attractive
profiles and was messaged by more attractive
profiles on okc, and the okc users seemed to write much more in their
profile essays, on average,
than the pof users did.