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I’m the first to admit it: we might be popular, we might create a lot of great relationships, we might blah blah blah. But OkCupid doesn’t really know what it’s doing.
I’m the first to admit it: we might be popular, we might create a lot of great relationships, we might blah blah blah. But OkCupid doesn’t really know what it’s doing.
It doesn't surprise me - people chuck their critical thinking out the window sometimes. I put more faith in those percentages, but I always search their answers for "unacceptable" responses before I contact someone. I don't trust an email from OKC telling me someone is a good fit for me.
Some people are sheep. Is it ethical? I dunno. Don't really care. Maybe it will get people to be less gullible, hearing about this.
It doesn't surprise me - people chuck their critical thinking out the window sometimes. I put more faith in those percentages, but I always search their answers for "unacceptable" responses before I contact someone. I don't trust an email from OKC telling me someone is a good fit for me.
Some people are sheep. Is it ethical? I dunno. Don't really care. Maybe it will get people to be less gullible, hearing about this.
On the contrary, I think the match percentages are a farce (maybe that's the experiment). The dates I went on with girls who were a 95% match or higher were pitiful. The dates I went on with girls under 90% were far better.
There is nothing negative to me in that article, for some reason people are seeing negativity due to the word "experiment". But if you read it, they are simply experimenting with different strategies to try to determine how people date select the people they date, etc. In the end, this type of thing results in data that make our lives easier and maybe dating easier. It's not like they are playing games with people or hooking them up to electrodes, just trying to determine patterns of mate selection based on data from their users.
When you go in the supermarket, and they have the kid's cereal at kid's eye level, and they put certain things on end caps, placement and location of every product, is a result of "experimenting" and using data from their shoppers patterns to determine why people buy the things we do and how to get us to buy more. Same thing in Target, and with most every business. There's a whole business around it with its' own degree, Marketing Psychology. Nothing new here, folks.
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On the contrary, I think the match percentages are a farce (maybe that's the experiment). The dates I went on with girls who were a 95% match or higher were pitiful. The dates I went on with girls under 90% were far better.
I've found them incredibly accurate. I've never had a bad time connecting with someone 90%+, but I answer a lot of questions and contact people that do the same. Not 50 or a 100, but several hundred. The people under 80% were horrendous, we just would never even be friends. No connection.
Sometimes though when the percentage is too high it feels like a sibling/platonic friend from the beginning.
The person I'm dating now, and the last person I dated, we both met in the wild, but when we compared profiles were were both over 92% in the match category.
I've found them incredibly accurate. I've never had a bad time connecting with someone 90%+, but I answer a lot of questions and contact people that do the same. Not 50 or a 100, but several hundred. The people under 80% were horrendous, we just would never even be friends. No connection.
Sometimes though when the percentage is too high it feels like a sibling/platonic friend from the beginning.
The person I'm dating now, and the last person I dated, we both met in the wild, but when we compared profiles were were both over 92% in the match category.
I've answered 600+ questions on there. The first girl I met (97%) had a bubbly personality, but was overweight and inactive (couldn't tell from the close up selfies she took of herself ). She would not have fit into my lifestyle. The second girl I met (95%) was extremely shy and socially awkward. I'm an introvert and shy, but her level of shyness far exceeded mine. The third girl I met (96%) was a little improvement on the other two, but I didn't really feel a connection. The fourth girl I met (98%) was a smug, uber-competitive, vegan yuppie who claimed to be a cyclist, but really just rode around town on a vintage cruiser bike. The best match I had was with a girl (87%) who came across as an aggressive Type-A in her profile and who ended up being bi-sexual. We've been talking for weeks now.
There is nothing negative to me in that article, for some reason people are seeing negativity due to the word "experiment". But if you read it, they are simply experimenting with different strategies to try to determine how people date select the people they date, etc. In the end, this type of thing results in data that make our lives easier and maybe dating easier. It's not like they are playing games with people or hooking them up to electrodes, just trying to determine patterns of mate selection based on data from their users.
When you go in the supermarket, and they have the kid's cereal at kid's eye level, and they put certain things on end caps, placement and location of every product, is a result of "experimenting" and using data from their shoppers patterns to determine why people buy the things we do and how to get us to buy more. Same thing in Target, and with most every business. There's a whole business around it with its' own degree, Marketing Psychology. Nothing new here, folks.
You make some good points. I guess I'm more concerned with whether these "experiments" are impacting the matches I'm getting, which have not been that great so far.
You make some good points. I guess I'm more concerned with whether these "experiments" are impacting the matches I'm getting, which have not been that great so far.
I never liked the matching sites, there was never anyone in my area that was a match anyway. I've heard that complaint for a long time though, so I'd guess they are doing this as an attempt to improve the accuracy of the matches.
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). She would not have fit into my lifestyle. The second girl I met (95%) was extremely shy and socially awkward. I'm an introvert and shy, but her level of shyness far exceeded mine. The third girl I met (96%) was a little improvement on the other two, but I didn't really feel a connection. The fourth girl I met (98%) was a smug, uber-competitive, vegan yuppie who claimed to be a cyclist, but really just rode around town on a vintage cruiser bike. The best match I had was with a girl (87%) who came across as an aggressive Type-A in her profile and who ended up being bi-sexual. We've been talking for weeks now.
