I’ve often wondered just what Match.com do with my subscription fee every month, after all they don’t actually do much to earn it. So rather than splashing out on new company BMWs all around, our friends at Match.com had spent my money wisely with a good old fashioned survey.
So in this latest survey, half of the women questioned said that they responded to a man based on his way of speaking. If there weren’t enough problems in the world already that warranted investigation, researches at Bath university found that women highlighted the importance of a man’s accent and many said that his voice revealed his personality. However, I’m not quite sure where that leaves the likes of Joe Pasquale or distinctive accents such as those from Scousers and Geordies, or the seven out of ten men who also admitted that they judged a woman on her looks.
Also, nine in ten respondents said that they decided on a partners suitability in just fifteen seconds, which kind of flies in the face of a previous survey mentioned in the Thirty Seconds to Impress blog entry. Never the less, if your voice fails to impress, there are still three other personality characteristics which stood out in helping to make that all important first impression.
Of those asked, fifty percent of respondents said that honesty, genuineness and earnestness also played a big part in their decisions. Sixty percent also said that confidence was an important factor in a prospective partner whilst forty percent highlighted how responsive and outgoing their personality was. Body language and posture was a high up on the list too.
So, not only do we need to look and smell nice and act all confident, we now need to think about how we are going to talk too. Now repeat after me. “The water in Majorca doesn’t quite taste how it ought to...”
Saturday, July 08, 2006
It’s All in the Voice
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3 comments:
here's a question for you: i have made the occasional foray into the likes of match.com and the 2 or 3 times i have started an email diaglogue with someone they have ended up after a week or less simply dropping off the face of the earth - something I said?
it's very strange, surely they could be polite enough to explain if they don't want to correspond anymore?
has ths happened to you?
Unfortunately, it happens all too often to me.
Sometimes they do say thanks, but most of the time they simply disappear. I usually give up on them when the messages stop but they are still active on Match. Sure, it hurts, but you live with it and push on.
I can understand it when a bloke is chatting with a woman (simply because – thanks to the male to female ratio - the woman is undoubtedly chatting to more than one person) but I'm very surprised about the other way around. Still, I guess it depends on how popular that person is. Never the less, it doesn’t excuse rudeness and, as such, perhaps it was better they stopped corresponding with you.
Personally, I would never stop chatting to someone and then just disappear. I'm far too much of a gent for that.
glad to hear it.
i have only been on a date with one person i met on internet dating and it was fine, but no real spark. at the end he said he had had a really nice time and texted later to say the same thing and that we should meet up again. he then didn't email until about a month later when he mailed to say he had 'come across a mail from me whilst cleaning out his inbox'..strangely, i did not reply to that one :)
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