I had the problem that my top result on Best Face is a) out of date, and visibly different from my current appearance, and b) a picture which I personally don’t like, although friends have told me that they do. (It’s the one with the brown scarf.) So I go back and forth on whether to use it or not.
ETA: Huh. As I look back through my reports, I notice that all my pictures other than that one also rate higher with women than with men—and the ratings of that picture vary significantly between one report and the other. (Also, I imagine the conference bike picture would have rated higher among geeks if they recognized the other people on the conference bike.)
By the way, I’m sure you know this already, but don’t rely on being able to keep the painting up as your photo, as it violates site policy.
I think that feature has relatively large sampling errors, making pretty much anything other than the total score not-so-reliable: I included the same picture twice by mistake and (for example) one copy has a large positive “girls 23-30” score and the other one has zero score in the same category. (On the other hand, I’ve just realised that the report keeps updating, as the differences between the two copies of the same picture are smaller than they used to be.)
Also, with a few exceptions the ranking I’ve got in the result matches the chronological order the pictures were taken, suggesting have become hotter and hotter over time. Or at least that my aesthetic preferences wrt photo portraits have improved.
I tried “Your best face”: the rating service that tells me just how bad my profile pictures really are. The results were amusing, to say the least.
I definitely need to take and post some better pictures.
I had the problem that my top result on Best Face is a) out of date, and visibly different from my current appearance, and b) a picture which I personally don’t like, although friends have told me that they do. (It’s the one with the brown scarf.) So I go back and forth on whether to use it or not.
ETA: Huh. As I look back through my reports, I notice that all my pictures other than that one also rate higher with women than with men—and the ratings of that picture vary significantly between one report and the other. (Also, I imagine the conference bike picture would have rated higher among geeks if they recognized the other people on the conference bike.)
By the way, I’m sure you know this already, but don’t rely on being able to keep the painting up as your photo, as it violates site policy.
I think that feature has relatively large sampling errors, making pretty much anything other than the total score not-so-reliable: I included the same picture twice by mistake and (for example) one copy has a large positive “girls 23-30” score and the other one has zero score in the same category. (On the other hand, I’ve just realised that the report keeps updating, as the differences between the two copies of the same picture are smaller than they used to be.)
Also, with a few exceptions the ranking I’ve got in the result matches the chronological order the pictures were taken, suggesting have become hotter and hotter over time. Or at least that my aesthetic preferences wrt photo portraits have improved.