Oops. You've been picking the wrong dating profile pics all this time.

Think you've obsessed over your dating profile pics and finally managed to get them just right? Sorry, but you'd better think again.

The dating app Hinge sifted through thousands of their users photos and figured out what gets those likes and what gets ignored. The results are pretty surprising. Hinge’s profile requires you to add six photos, and people can like them and start conversations based on them individually. So they can really tell what kind of photos illicit the most positive responses. 

To get to the bottom of what's effective, they tagged thousands of randomly selected photos with 35 different labels (for example: hair up vs. down). The basic takeaway is that you should pick photos that highlight the real you. As Olivia Abramowitz, Hinge's VP of Marketing, told us in an interview, "Your photos should show you in your natural state, doing something that you love." Read more...

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