Update: I improved the profile of someone who reached out to me from this article. They went from zero matches in a year to ~2/week.
I think this is roughly the effect size one should expect from following this advice: it’s not going to take you from the 5th percentile to the 95th, but you can go from the 20th to the 70th or something.
The comparison is kind of dubious because I moved cities, but my first six boosts (the number of boosts I did before I moved, when I less understood what I was doing) averaged 7.17 likes, and my most recent six averaged 13.6 (p = 0.02 using an unpaired t-test).
So I guess it doubled my number of likes, if you take the numbers at face value, but you probably shouldn’t.
(I moved to a city that had a worse gender ratio but was larger; I’m not sure how those factors shake out, but would guess that at least some of the improvement was due to the city rather than my bio being better.)
This is great, thank you! Can I encourage you to put it in the body of the post, maybe right at the beginning? Even though they can’t be taken at face value I think it’s really helpful to give an idea of why you believe in your advice.
What kind of results did you see when you implemented these suggestions?
Update: I improved the profile of someone who reached out to me from this article. They went from zero matches in a year to ~2/week.
I think this is roughly the effect size one should expect from following this advice: it’s not going to take you from the 5th percentile to the 95th, but you can go from the 20th to the 70th or something.
The comparison is kind of dubious because I moved cities, but my first six boosts (the number of boosts I did before I moved, when I less understood what I was doing) averaged 7.17 likes, and my most recent six averaged 13.6 (p = 0.02 using an unpaired t-test).
So I guess it doubled my number of likes, if you take the numbers at face value, but you probably shouldn’t.
(I moved to a city that had a worse gender ratio but was larger; I’m not sure how those factors shake out, but would guess that at least some of the improvement was due to the city rather than my bio being better.)
This is great, thank you! Can I encourage you to put it in the body of the post, maybe right at the beginning? Even though they can’t be taken at face value I think it’s really helpful to give an idea of why you believe in your advice.