{"id":39,"date":"2009-02-23T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiansinglesolution.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2009-02-23T14:36:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T13:36:56","slug":"the-perfect-online-dating-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiansinglesolution.com\/blog\/asian-dating-news\/the-perfect-online-dating-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Online Dating Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">How much thought do you put into your online dating profile?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>What do you think you&#8217;d have to write about to get the best results?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Studies show that men tend to look for someone they find physically attractive, sporty and understanding while women want someone understanding, funny and in touch with their emotions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">The big question, is do you write about you or write about the person you are looking for?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Professor Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire carried out a study at the Edinburgh International Science Festival to help answer this question.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; mso-ansi-language: EN;\">He asked <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>40 men and 40 women to write 25-word personal ads \u00e2\u20ac\u201c then got another set of volunteers to circle the ones that appealed. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The results showed a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153golden formula\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that you should stick to when writing a profile.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>You should spend 70 per cent of the profile describing you and 30 per cent describing what you are looking for. If you spend more than 70% of the profile talking about yourself then you might appear to be egotistical. Likewise, you may give you the impression you are trying to hid something <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>if you don&#8217;t write enough about yourself.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">In the studies, the ads that were closest to the 70:30 rule were the ones that had clearly the largest number of replies.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Interestingly, <\/span><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\">Wiseman used a separate panel of volunteers to predict which ads they thought would get the most responses. There was a huge and evident gender difference. The male volunteers were extremely good at predicting which ads would have the most success while the women completely failed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Wiseman concluded that women should perhaps get a man to look over their dating profile to get the best results.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much thought do you put into your online dating profile?\u00a0\u00a0 What do you think you&#8217;d have to write about to get the best results?\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Studies show that men tend to look for someone they find physically attractive, sporty and understanding while women want someone understanding, funny and in touch with their emotions. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-dating-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiansinglesolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiansinglesolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiansinglesolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiansinglesolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiansinglesolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiansinglesolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiansinglesolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiansinglesolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiansinglesolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}