Jun 19, 2011. It was meant to be a dating website exclusively for the use of 'beautiful men and women', where members ruthlessly selected and excluded those who did not match their definitions of good looks. But last month when BeautifulPeople.com was attacked by a computer virus, some claim standards slipped. A 35-year-old mathematician hacked OkCupid and found his future-fiancee in just 90 days all with the help of computer algorithms. The dating site founded by Harvard students in 2004 matches singles looking for love based on a compatibility percentage rendered from a questionnaire. Boston-born Chris McKinlay was working on his PhD at UCLA in June 2012 when he signed up for the site, but was having dismal luck finding a mate. Using an algorithm he was able to sort the women on the site, focusing on a sample of 5,000 who live in LA or San Francisco and had logged onto the site within the last month. He then created a new profile and changed his potential matches to from several hunder to over 10,000. At one point he had over 400 women a day looking at his site. He proposed to the girlfriend he met on the site a year after they met. They have another theory, however. In a recent posting, they revealed that how good-looking someone is depends on how they divide opinion. A woman tended to get a better response from men as men became less consistent in their opinions of her. ‘The less-messaged woman was usually considered consistently attractive, while the more-messaged woman often created variation in male opinion,’ they claim. Ms Fry suggests that as well as intimidating the opposite sex, obviously attractive people are often given lower scores. Mr Fry uses the example of Holly Willoughby and Sarah Jessica Parker. While Holly Willoughby is often described as beautiful, Sarah Jessica Parker tends to get a varied response. ‘A lot of people - i.e. Most of the internet - thinks she looks like a horse,’ says Ms Fry. But Sarah Jessica Parker would get more messages, according to Ms Fry, because those who think she is attractive will consistently rate her higher than someone who is a classically beautiful. She adds: ‘If some people think you're beautiful, you're better off having other people think you're a massive minger.’.
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