How to Judge a Person by Their Dating Profile

Most people are already prepared with the necessary skills that enable them to judge other people, but this is only in the real world. All it takes is a modification of the innate skills of a person in the physical world, to be translated and put to use in the cyber world.  However, it is up to you to judge a person’s dating profile. Once you get the hang of it, you will be amazed by how revealing or not, a dating profile can be, and how likely that person will end up being like their profile.

Evaluating Your Own Social Recognition Skills
Take a jotting pad and a pen, and score out the primary characteristics you usually notice in a person when meeting them for the first time. The best way to do this is to recollect at least five incidences of meeting people for the first time. In a sort of slow motion flashback, identify the characteristics of the person that you first noticed, that helped you judge the person. The dating profile of a person is the online counterpart of meeting a person for the first time.

Run a few profile searches in random and observe the profile characteristics that are revealed in the results. Match the discovered character markers, against the physical world characteristics that you would notice in a person. Mark out the ones that would enable you to assess a dating profile.

What You See is What You Get
Just as pictures can tell a thousand words, you will be able to sort through and right away judge a person, primarily by looking at their pictures. However, you should not use only images of a person to direct your evaluation of their dating profile. Add to your favorite selections, some of the profiles that you instantly like from their pictures, and then further assess the dating profile.

Also the writing style a person uses can tell you a lot about what kind of person they are. A dating profile will contain enough of subjective information entered directly by the individual. Use the general mood of the writing to come up with a mental picture of the personality of the person. A lot of ‘I this’ and ‘I that’ would for example, specify a very ego centric person, but just a few instances, may reveal a very jovial and outgoing person.

Sing Your Inbuilt Evaluation Skills
When you are looking through a dating profile that is visually interesting, you will want to concentrate on some of the physical defining characteristics that build towards a person’s self. These would contain, the indicated height and weight, self-defined nature (also when compared to the expression on the person’s face on the profile image), and other physical characteristics that may help you sketch a mental picture. In the physical world too, such physical characteristics would instantly bring to mind a mental profiling of a person, during a first meeting.

Finally, rely on your intuition. People are generally very well geared to mentally judging a dating profile in the similar manner that they instinctively judge a person in the physical world. It is surprising at how convincing and true most instinctive judgments prove to be.