The OkCupid blog post claims they were careful to control for attractiveness: We were careful to preselect our data pool so that physical attractiveness (as me

The OkCupid blog post claims they were careful to control for attractiveness: We were careful to preselect our data pool so that physical attractiveness (as measured by our site picture-rating utility) was roughly even across all the race/gender slices. http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/10/05/your-race-affects-whether-people-write-you-back/ http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/10/05/your-race-affec... So even though guys were rating these black women to be as "attractive" as the non-black women in the sample, the black women were getting fewer responses from guys.