While chatting with a guy on the site one day, we discussed briefly the OKCupid Blog data analysis regarding race and how a person's ethnicity affects how other users respond to you. (Here’s a spoiler: If you aren’t white, sucks to be you.) He joked about us each creating identical profiles using a photo of someone more “desirable."

I originally had no interest -- I already know the results. I do not need anything else to justify my fear of dying old and alone, face down in a pool of my own sick with 15 cats crapping all over my dead and decaying body. But curiosity got the best of me. Frustrated after nearly a year of unsuccessful online dating, I wanted to take a peek at what it's like to be on "the other side."