"Breaking the online dating sound barrier"

Online Friend Recommendation through Personality Matching

2012-02-03T00:43:00.000-03:00

If you had read the paper "Online Friend Recommendation through Personality Matching and Collaborative Filtering"

It is useless at all for Online Dating because that recommender system called MatchMaker does not assess personality of members using a normative personality test.
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Abstract: Most social network websites rely on people's proximity on the social graph for friend recommendation. In this paper, we present MatchMaker, a collaborative filtering friend recommendation system based on personality matching. The goal of MatchMaker is to leverage the social information and mutual understanding among people in existing social network connections, and produce friend recommendations based on rich contextual data from people's physical world interactions. MatchMaker allows users' network to match them with similar TV characters, and uses relationships in the TV programs as parallel comparison matrix to suggest to the users friends that have been voted to suit their personality the best. The system’s ranking schema allows progressive improvement on the personality matching consensus and more diverse branching of users' social network connections. Lastly, our user study shows that the application can also induce more TV content consumption by driving users' curiosity in the ranking process.

(the authors had several problems to calculate similarity)

"....While "People you may know" from Facebook recommends a friend to a user based upon the number of their mutual friends, work and education information, MatchMaker recommends a friend to a user based upon the matching in personality and characteristics that their social network friends, and TV show story writers, have collectively concluded.
Facebook uses proximity matching whereas MatchMaker uses personality matching for friend recommendation.
... our research on Facebook profiles has shown that the profile information is usually kept at a minimal level and gives not much information on the actual personality and characteristics of the recommended friends."

Singles in USA study by Match

2012-02-02T16:36:00.000-03:00

If you had read Singles in America (USA), it is only a bunch of silly statistics, useless at all for the Online Dating Industry, because it needs innovations.
Henry Ford was fond to say "If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse than the one I have; and not a car."

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry 2011.
The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created.
The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations!!! But innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites. Or launching new ones with the same stupidities as the old ones saying “the first dating social network”.
Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (FORGET Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences)
III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.

NEW FUNCTIONALITIES at eDarling.

2012-01-31T02:20:00.000-03:00

eDarling ( of course powered by eHarmony, it has the same matching algorithm ) operates in 12 countries, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Turkey and Russia.
eDarling can not take off in any of those countries where it operates.

They show your personality traits (Big 5 model) compared to the average of eDarling's users, and not compared to a sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of the population of Spain for eDarling Spanish version. (as the 16PF5 does)
And they can not show you Compatibility Distribution Curves.

SoulMateIcon

2012-01-30T16:43:00.000-03:00

SoulMateIcon says: "The information stored inside the SMI about ones character, age, temperament and education is based on a small questionnaire. The methodology behind this is new and it is based on the work of Gaston Berger, Joseph M. Helms, Jean Emile Charon and others. Tests have shown remarkable results: a group of 267 couples showed a 76% result of ' very accurate profiler '. "

That SMI is only a HOAX based solely on a modified IPSATIVE personality test, like PerfectMatch.

Please remember.
Personality is composed of two basic types of traits:
traits that an individual acquires, dimensions of character;
and
traits with biological underpinnings, dimensions of temperament (Cloninger 1987).

IPSATIVE personality tests are OBSOLETE (self-descriptive questionnaires) and should be discarded: MBTI (PerfectMatch), DISC (ThomasKnowsPeople), Enneagram (Dopasowani) or other proprietary ipsative tests like the ones used at Chemistry, ButterfliesAgain, Doskonalapara, PembePanjur, LittleHint, oneGoodLove and others.

NORMATIVE personality tests like Big5 versions used at PlentyOfFish, eHarmony / eDarling, Meetic Affinity, Parship, Be2, True are good for orientative purposes but not good enough for predictive purposes.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2011/11/big-summary-about-matching-algorithms.html

WorldWide, there are over 5000 -five thousand- online dating sites... but no one is using the 16PF5 to assess personality of their members!

Who's Telling You The Truth About Dating Algorithms?

2012-01-29T16:51:00.000-03:00

The online dating industry is a USD4 billion business (global market). [USD 4,000 million]

"... Dr. Eli Finkel (Northwestern University), Schwartz's younger colleague in the behavioral sciences, who staked out his own territory as industry-scold, denouncing eHarmony, one of the largest dating sites in the world and the first to market a scientific approach to matching. eHarmony has refused to reveal its algorithm, Finkel said, and therefore the company should not advertise a scientific approach to matching until it can show, publicly, that its system works according to the standards of scientific rigor. "

One year ago, during Miami iDate2011 conference

2012-01-22T16:28:00.000-03:00

PlentyOfFish was hacked.

eHarmony's matching algorithm, the truth

2012-01-20T14:31:00.000-03:00

part 1

part 2

part 3

Comiingle

2012-01-16T23:37:00.000-03:00

A new social dating site, Comiingle, will be a stupid investors series' case of study.

Experience had shown serious daters do not tolerate friends / parents / neighbours / relatives / fans or other social networking users to be involved in a private matter as building a personal relationship with future in mind because they are "interested third parties ingredients" in a process that only concerns 2 persons. See failed proposals like SmartDate, HowAboutWe, Zoosk, Zin.gl, Engage (then rebranded to Ignither group dating), Thread, Triangulate, Gelato (then rebranded to Twnty), WooMe, 12Like, LittleHint.

Remember:
Social networking/applications could merge with online dating for fun, for flirting, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification.
Social networking and online dating for serious daters are like water and oil, they will never mix.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.
The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.
Compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*personality measured with a normative test.
*similarity: there are different ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.

the Obsolescence of Dating Sites

2012-01-08T18:00:00.001-03:00

Have you noticed the Obsolescence of Dating Sites offering Compatibility Matching Methods ?

eHarmony, eDarling, Chemistry, True, PerfectMatch, Parship, MeeticAffinity, MatchAffinity, FriendScout24 BQ check, PlentyOfFish (POF) Chemistry Predictor, Be2; all of them are all RUBBISH for serious daters!

I am anxiously waiting the new sites to be launched by eHarmony Inc. and IAC's Personals!

eHarmony Inc.'s bankruptcy. soon?

2012-01-07T01:23:00.001-03:00

eHarmony Inc. had been launching several sites during last 11 years including Jazzed as a social dating site and partnered with eDarling in Europe.

It has presence in: USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Brazil, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and Russia.

See traffic rank by Alexa of those sites.

Jazzed had failed. BetterDateDE failed. eHarmony Japan never launched. Kaori Kitagawa no longer Japan Product Manager as per her LinkedIn public profile.
eDarling can not take off in any country it operates.
eHarmony USA, Canada, UK, Australia and Brazil in decadence.

Now eHarmony Inc. has 2 options.
One, die peacefully, going directly to bankruptcy.
The other, try to innovate with a new independent site.

The 5 steps in eHarmony Japan's questionnaire.

2012-01-06T17:31:00.000-03:00

eHarmony Japan (ready since September 2011?) NEVER LAUNCHED.
Its questionnaire includes 5 steps.
Step #1 Basic information. (8% of the whole questionnaire)
Step #2 Self-introduction including personality traits assessment. (45% of the whole questionnaire)
Step #3 Values and Attitudes in Human Relationships. (21% of the whole questionnaire)
Step #4 Interests and Skills. (20% of the whole questionnaire)
Step #5 Your Ideal Match. (6% of the whole questionnaire)

eHarmony Inc. had launched several sites during last 11 years including Jazzed as a social dating site and partnered with eDarling in Europe with low success rate.

Now eHarmony Inc. has 2 options.

One, die peacefully, going directly to bankruptcy.

The other, try to innovate with a new independent site as eHarmony Inc. had failed in Brazil and they do not want to fail in Japan, because the Big 5 test sees all Japanese as all the same.
eHarmony, a 11+ years old obsolete site, uses a Compatibility Matching Algorithm based on personality similarity with the Big5 normative personality test and Dyadic Adjustment Scale (invented by Dr. Graham B. Spanier in 1976) as its core. The Guided Communication Process (a mutual filtering step) is an appendix of its main matching algorithm. It is a HOAX; with no scientific support and low effective level, low success rate, less than 10%; performing as placebo.
eHarmony Inc. may be doing some proofs before launching that new online dating site based solely on strict personality similarity using a copycat of the 16PF5 test as all the new & fresh research shows STRICT personality similarity as the right road to go.

The eHarmony Japan mystery

2012-01-05T02:29:00.000-03:00

It seems eHarmony Japan was live, ready, fully developed since September 2011 but never launched.
Why?
Its subscribe offer says "3 months free from 6 October 2011 to 31 December 2011"?

eHarmony's matching algorithm, the truth. part 1 of 3

2012-01-04T12:25:00.000-03:00

eHarmony has 2 bogus patents about its Compatibility Matching Algorithm, none of them explains in detail the actual Compatibility Matching Algorithm in use in their sites.

eHarmony, a 11+ years old obsolete site, uses a Compatibility Matching Algorithm based on personality similarity with the Big5 normative personality test and Dyadic Adjustment Scale (invented by Dr. Graham B. Spanier in 1976) as its core. The Guided Communication Process (a mutual filtering step) is an appendix of its main matching algorithm.

eHarmony is not "scientifically proven" because eHarmony Labs could not prove eHarmony's matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper.

eHarmony's Compatibility Matching Algorithm consists of 2 stages.
* A mutual filtering stage common to any online dating site like PlentyOfFish, Match, Chemistry, True, PerfectMatch, Parship, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, Be2, FriendScout24, etc.
* The core stage.

The mutual filtering stage includes your race, age range, physical appearance, income, religion, leisure activities and sports, skills, location, drinking and smoking habits, likes & dislikes, if you want children or if you have children under 18 living with you, pets, etc. and the same items you will desire in any prospective partner.

The core stage of eHarmony's Compatibility Matching Algorithm:
1) The normative Big5 test to assess personality (The Big 5 is good for orientative purposes but not good enough for predictive purposes)
2) Dyadic Adjustment Scale (invented in 1976) to calculate compatibility (similarity) between prospective mates.
3) The Guided Communication Process (a mutual filtering step) designed to narrow even more the field of persons you give a better chance of getting along with, and also it is useful for feedback purposes.

(to be continued in part 2)

eHarmony claims 12 million users and Match Latam, 30 million

2012-01-04T00:14:00.000-03:00

In 2012 eHarmony claims 12 million users.
In Latin America, Match claims 30 million users.

But how many of those 12 million users claimed by eHarmony are active?
My bet: less than 1 million, so 1M/12M is 8.33%.
8.33% of eHarmony's database is useful.
The rest, 11 million are inactive or fake profiles!!!

As for Match Latam, which also owns Meetic (ParPerfeito in Brazil), my bet is: only 200,000 paying members in Latin American countries (Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador)
200,000/30M is 0.67%, i.e. less than 1% of Match Latam database is useful.

SPSP 2012 series of posters

2012-01-03T04:23:00.000-03:00

The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
will be held January 26-28, 2012, in San Diego, California.

Assortative Mating, Personality Similarity, and Relationship Satisfaction in Committed Gay Male and Lesbian Relationships
Gian Gonzaga1, Heather Setrakian1, Erina Lee1; 1eHarmony Labs
Poster B322, Friday, January 27, 8:00 – 9:30 am, Sails Pavilion
This study investigated how personality similarity related to relationship satisfaction among committed gay and lesbian couples. Couples who were more similar in personality reported higher levels of relationship satisfaction after controlling for stereotype similarity and the main effects of personality. Implications for understanding the underpinnings of relationship commitment are discussed.

Bigger May Be Better: Female Attraction to Male Muscle Mass Across the Menstrual Cycle
Ashalee C. Hurst1, Robert D. Mather2; 1Texas Tech University, 2University of Central Oklahoma
Poster A81, Thursday, January 26, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Sails Pavilion
Female attraction to male muscle was investigated throughout the menstrual cycle. Participants rated male bodies with low, medium, high, and extremely high muscle. No significant interaction between ovulation and muscle appeared. A significant main effect for muscle appeared. Extreme, high, and medium muscle were each rated higher than low muscle.

“Psssst, is My Personality Showing?” Exploring Facebook and Personality
Britni Brewer1; 1High Point University
Poster D71, Friday, January 27, 6:15 – 7:45 pm, Sails Pavilion
Social relationships are becoming increasingly popular in online environments but little research has been conducted on individual differences in utilization of social media. This study examines the relationship between personality and Facebook behaviors. The results indicate self-reported behavior may not present the same relationships as seen with more objective measures.

Personality Predicts Research Preferences: Big Five Predicts How Individuals Perform Information Searches
Kimdy Le1, Olivia Pavlov1, Joan Poulsen1, Emily Dill1; 1Indiana University Purdue University - Columbus
Poster D116, Friday, January 27, 6:15 – 7:45 pm, Sails Pavilion
This study tested how personality relates to information-source preference. We presented participants with 10 scenarios. Participants rated the likelihood of using 5 sources of information for each scenario. We found that personality was related to information-source preference, and we tested for mediation and moderation. In sum, personality predicted information-source preferences.

The Enemy Effect: Perceptions of Similarity as a Function of Attraction
Brian Collisson1, John Chambers1; 1University of Florida
Poster E142, Saturday, January 28, 8:00 – 9:30 am, Sails Pavilion
Similarity breeds attraction (Byrne, 1971), but does attraction also breed perceived similarity? The current research addresses this question by examining the inferences people make towards a likable and dislikable other. Findings suggest that perceiving similarity as a function of attraction establishes cognitive balance and consistency within the individual (Heider, 1958).

Birth Cohort Differences in the Big Five Personality Traits, 1985-2009: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis
Brittany Gentile1, W. Keith Campbell1, Jean M. Twenge2; 1University of Georgia, 2San Diego State University
Poster D119, Friday, January 27, 6:15 – 7:45 pm, Sails Pavilion
Multiple meta-analyses were conducted to examine generational change over time in Big Five personality traits among college students using four well-known measures (i.e., Big Five Inventory, NEO-FFI, NEO-PI, and NEO-PI-R). Results show a significant decrease in openness across several measures. Partial evidence was found for changes in neuroticism and extraversion.

Narcissism and First Impressions in a Speed-Dating Study
Robert Ackerman1; 1Michigan State University
Poster E148, Saturday, January 28, 8:00 – 9:30 am, Sails Pavilion
A speed-dating paradigm was used to clarify the roles played by different narcissistic traits in the generation of romantic appeal. Undergraduate students (n = 232) completed the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and engaged in five-minute speed dates. Results highlighted the importance of grandiosity in the first impressions of narcissists.

The effects of race and trait information on ratings of dating desirability: A behavioral and event-related potential investigation.
Holly Earls1, Mark Varvaris1, James Morris1; 1University of Virginia
Poster A42, Thursday, January 26, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Sails Pavilion
This study utilized behavioral and event-related potential measures to assess the role of race, trait information, and attraction in the formation of romantic relationships across genders. Converging evidence from both experiments indicate that race and trait information have a larger impact on dating desirability for females than for males.

Dispositional Factors Predicting Usage of and Behavior on Online Dating Sites
Jennifer Fitzpatrick1, Ginette C. Blackhart2; 1East Tennessee State University
Poster D198, Friday, January 27, 6:15 – 7:45 pm, Sails Pavilion
This study assessed the relationship between several dispositional variables and online dating site usage and behavior. Results showed self-esteem, sexual preference, rejection sensitivity, and age to be significant predictors of usage of online dating sites. Self-esteem, gender, and age were significant predictors of behavior related to online dating.

Emotional responses to an acute elicitation of jealousy in dating couples
Nicole E. Henniger1, Christine R. Harris1; 1University of California, San Diego
Poster B148, Friday, January 27, 8:00 – 9:30 am, Sails Pavilion
We ethically induced jealousy in dating couples by making it appear as if one partner was flirting with another participant in an online chat. Participants who viewed a flirtatious versus mundane conversation reported significantly more jealousy and other negative emotions. Attachment style was not related to differences in responses.

Relationship Outcomes in Married and Dating Couples: Attributions, Satisfaction, and Closeness
Brooke M. Montoya1, Alicia Limke2, Paul C. Jones1; 1Southern Nazarene University, 2University of Central Oklahoma
Poster E57, Saturday, January 28, 8:00 – 9:30 am, Sails Pavilion
105 participants completed measures of relationship outcomes. Married individuals reported higher levels of strength (a form of closeness) than did dating individuals; however, there were no differences between dating and married individuals in internality, stability, or globality of negative attributions, relationship satisfaction, or the diversity or frequency of couples’ activities.
How Do I See You? Partner-Enhancement in Dating Couples
Marian Morry1, Mie Kito2; 1University of Manitoba, 2University of Winnipeg
Poster C58, Friday, January 27, 12:30 – 2:00 pm, Sails Pavilion
Individuals self-enhance relative to strangers or acquaintances. According to self-expansion theory, dating partners become associated with the self. Therefore, people can perceive the self positively by viewing their partner positively. Repeated-measures ANOVAs indicated partner-enhancement and idealization on moderate but not low relationship relevant traits among 58 heterosexual dating couples.

Backfire effect: Emphasizing reproductively advantageous male traits in a dating prime engenders lower female interpersonal attraction
Chia Niap Tan1, Fen-Fang Tsai2; 1National University of Singapore, 2Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore
Poster E158, Saturday, January 28, 8:00 – 9:30 am, Sails Pavilion
Addressing the inadequacies of the Evolutionary axiom of interpersonal attraction, this study depicts how indiscriminate emphasis of reproductively advantageous male traits can backfire even in a dating prime. By considering several other premises, a working model for attraction can be generated that is both coherent with theory and yet generalizable.

Attachment and the Use of Humor during Conflict Negotiation in Dating Couples
Heike A. Winterheld1, Jeffry A. Simpson2, M. Minda Oriña3; 1California State University, East Bay, 2University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, 3St. Olaf College
Poster C72, Friday, January 27, 12:30 – 2:00 pm, Sails Pavilion
We tested how partners with different attachment orientations express and react to humor during conflict negotiation. Avoidant individuals used less affiliative and more aggressive humor; anxious individuals used more self-defeating humor. Avoidant individuals were angrier when partners used aggressive humor. Anxious individuals responded favorably to affiliative but not self-defeating humor.

“Be Mine”: Individual differences in attachment orientation predict relationship investment on Valentine’s Day
William J. Chopik1, Britney M. Wardecker1, Robin S. Edelstein1; 1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Poster E38, Saturday, January 28, 8:00 – 9:30 am, Sails Pavilion
In two studies we examined how Valentine’s Day affects perceptions of investment in romantic relationships. We found that adult attachment orientation moderated how people evaluated their relationships on Valentine’s Day compared to a control day. Findings are discussed in the context of the relationship-enhancing events, such as holidays and anniversaries.

eHarmony is going social

2012-01-01T04:13:00.000-03:00

eHarmony is going social with Facebook connect and the Ping a Friend feature. See screenshots as proof.
"With Ping a Friend, you can get advice about a match's profile from up to 5 friends anywhere in the world, via Facebook. Uncertain about a match? Ping a Friend!"

Yes, you read well, eHarmony's Team to cannibalize eHarmony (a 11+ years old obsolete site) making it a social dating site meanwhile they are developing a completely new site, a new compatibility matching algorithm using the 16PF5 test, instead of the Big5.

Many old dating sites like Match and PlentyOfFish (POF) had made the same trick, they show themselves as social dating sites.
Remember: Social networking/applications could merge with online dating for fun, for flirting, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification. Social networking and online dating for serious daters are like water and oil, they will never mix.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.

The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.
Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (FORGET Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences)
III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.

OkCupid Labs, part of Match's Team, is developing a very advanced compatibility matching method using the normative personality test 16PF5 to be launched in an independent site to replace Chemistry.
eHarmony Labs, the same, developing a very advanced compatibility matching method using the normative personality test 16PF5 to be launched in an independent site.

I had challenged both eHarmony and Match to show those Compatibility Distribution Curves for each and every dater, i.e. how compatible you are with the rest of the daters.

Chemistry offers 3 months for the price of 1

2011-12-30T17:16:00.000-03:00

Chemistry offers 3 months for the price of 1 and there are free communications days at eHarmony USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia and UK December 30th to January 2nd.

It seems both titans are trying to captivate new users or returning users before launching their new sites using the 16PF5 or similar test.

Free communications days at eHarmony

2011-12-30T00:45:00.001-03:00

Free communications days at eHarmony Brazil, Australia and UK December 30th to January 2nd.
~~but not USA and Canada?~~ USA and Canada as well

What is happening at eHarmony headquarters?
Anyone knows?
Are they testing a new compatibility matching algorithm using the 16PF5 and they plan to launch in a new independent site soon?

marketing campaigns for Parperfeito (Brazil) and Match in Argentina.

2011-12-29T17:58:00.000-03:00

I remember a previous interview in July 2011 where the Latam CEO had said:

"Currently the most popular dating site in the web has 60 million members in Latin America: 30 million in Brazil, 8 million in Mexico, 4 million in Argentina, Colombia with 3 million and 500 thousand in Chile."

but now Match Latam claims over 30 million registered persons.

Match is morphing to a big social dating site, but its prices are very high.

MySpace is a big social dating application at Facebook.

Facebook is full of social dating applications.

Badoo is a very big social dating site, it offers micro-payments to increase your visibility or send virtual goods as presents.

Even PlentyOfFish (POF) is a social dating site for fun, not serious dating. Nearly the same persons who paid to Match USA & Canada are the ones who want to use PlentyOfFish for free, paying with precious time.

See 2 different marketing campaigns for Parperfeito (Brazil) and Match in Argentina.

There are some tricks to use Match for free.

It is customary for many daters in Latin American countries to use the same nickname as their Microsoft/Yahoo Instant Messenger Address when registering in forums or dating sites.

i.e.

Suppose you see the profile of a woman whose nickname is JenniferSampleCow001

you can try the following instant messaging accounts.

JenniferSampleCow001 at hotmaildotcom

JenniferSampleCow001 at hotmaildotcomdotar if she is from Argentina

JenniferSampleCow001 at hotmaildotcomdotbr if she is from Brazil

JenniferSampleCow001 at livedotcomdotar if she is from Argentina

JenniferSampleCow001 at livedotcomdotbr if she is from Brazil

JenniferSampleCow001 at livedotcom

JenniferSampleCow001 at yahoodotcom

JenniferSampleCow001 at yahoodotcomdotar if she is from Argentina

JenniferSampleCow001 at yahoodotcomdotbr if she is from Brazil

That is why sites like Parhip does not allow you to choose your nickname and shows you profiles' names with a code (like ESFN3KTG, FS0MXG3F, ES94Z3PR and so on, to avoid any person can communicate for free, without paying the subscription)

Remember: Social networking/applications could merge with online dating for fun, for flirting, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification. Social networking and online dating for serious daters are like water and oil, they will never mix. Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.

The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.

Compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.

*personality measured with a normative test.

*similarity: there are different ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.

Match Latam NEW compatibility matching system

2011-12-29T00:16:00.000-03:00

Match Latam claims over 30 million registered persons.
They are Basic, Gold and Platinum members.
Platinum members can communicate with Basic, Gold and Platinum members.
Gold members can communicate with Gold and Platinum members.
Basic users can communicate with Platinum members only.

But my bet is the majority of those 30 million registered persons are inactive or fake profiles.

Match Latam offers a compatibility system which does not include any personality test.
It is available in Spanish (Castilian), Rioplatense Spanish (uses voseo), English, French, Portuguese and German.

"Cupid is a sophisticated data search and cross-tabulation system developed to help bring you closer to your perfect Match.
The tool works in the following way:
1 – The high precision system identifies users that are 70% or more compatible with you;
2 – The system then sends you an e-mail, informing the results of this search based on order of relevance;
3 – It informs you about those individuals shown to be 70% or more compatible with you who have recently changed their profile."
http://www.match.com.ar/ajuda/cupido/?lang=1

" high precision " ????

That high precision compatibility system seems to be a mutual filtering method combined with a behavioural recommender system (most probably quite similar to the UltraMatch feature from PlentyOfFish / POF). Of course it is not going to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry. It is a HOAX, only for fun purposes, performing as an ice-breaker.

Every time a woman reviews your profile, a pop up window appears and suggest you to invite her to VideoChat. When you click, the subscribe window appears

I suspect OkCupid Labs, part of Match's Team, is developing a very advanced compatibility matching method using the normative personality test 16PF5 to be launched in an independent site to replace Chemistry.
Match Japan still uses Chemistry inside as its primary compatibility matching system.

Match Latam NEW SITE

2011-12-28T01:54:00.000-03:00

- Match Latam powered by Meetic.
- available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
- claims over 30 million registered persons.
- an average of 10,000 new users *are registering every day*
- Basic, Gold and Platinum members.

"About Us
Welcome to Match.
Here you'll interact with 30 million of people who are determined to meeting their partners.
Match began its operations in January 2000. As the years went by, we were happy to receive hundreds of e-mails, thanking us for loves, relationships, weddings, and children who were born! "

http://www.match.com.ar/empresa/?lang=1

"Match is the absolute leader for online dating and relationships in Brazil and Latin America. There are more than 21 million registered users and an average of 10,000 new users *are registering every day*. What do these people have in common?"

http://www.match.com.ar/?lang=1

"Cupid is a sophisticated data search and cross-tabulation system developed to help bring you closer to your perfect Match.
The tool works in the following way:
1 – The high precision system ??? identifies users that are 70% or more compatible with you;
2 – The system then sends you an e-mail, informing the results of this search based on order of relevance;
3 – It informs you about those individuals shown to be 70% or more compatible with you who have recently changed their profile."

http://www.match.com.ar/ajuda/cupido/?lang=1

"5 - Do I have to pay to use Match?
Match is a relationship service with free registration. Basic users have the right to a series of benefits, including: perform advanced searches, insert a photo in the profile and maintain unlimited contact with Platinum users via Mail and VideoChat.
To make the most of all the website tools, it is necessary to become a Gold or Platinum member. For those who are really serious about finding a certain kind of person with more convenience and speed, there are the Gold and Platinum plans, which are paid. As a Gold member: You will be able to talk via VideoChat with other paying users, read and respond to ALL e-mails received and send your romantic issues to Be+. Furthermore, you will receive the benefits of the guaranteed customer support service via e-mail!
As a Platinum user: You will be able to talk via VideoChat with all users (Basic, Gold and Platinum) and all users will be able to read and respond to your e-mails unlimitedly. Take advantage of this feature! "

http://www.match.com.ar/ajuda/contas//?lang=1

The new site does not include any more Cupido Diario (Chemistry inside)
COMPARE to the old version:
"Some news about Match Argentina"

Zoosk, a deflating bubble!

2011-12-26T16:33:00.000-03:00

Alexa shows Zoosk, the 4 years old "romantic social network", had suffered a sudden drop in traffic rank some months ago.
I do not think it is due a big mobile adoption rate.
Perhaps their daters are becoming tired of Zoosk.
Or are they running out of money?

Zoosk had received a ton of money, over USD 40.5 million, from venture funds, but Zoosk can not revolutionize the Online Dating Industry. They only made some noise during 2010.

Zoosk will be a "stupid investors case of study" for several venture funds.

The next Online Dating Industry big scandal.

2011-12-22T16:21:00.000-03:00

Many of you are well aware about the:

Dannon's Activia, DanActive health claims draw USD21M fine.

Power Balance Bracelets lawsuit

The PIP breast implants scandal.
The 2010 was the year of the "PIP scandal". Thousands of women throughout the world carrying a time bomb: prosthesis with uncertified gel, increased risk of rupture and leak into ganglions, increase risk of developing capsular contractures.

and some "weak" lawsuits againts online dating sites like:
More Than Half Of Match Profiles Are Inactive Or Fake

I live in a South American country and I am really astonished to see how online daters in "1st World" countries are really victims of human experimentation.

The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with low successful rates.
The Online Dating Industry is selling elixirs, tonics, snake oil liniments and other patent medicine and performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created where any player can make any claim without any credentials.

The Online Dating Industry needs a major earthquake, a major cataclysm to extinguish those large dinosaurs (Match/Chemistry, eHarmony/eDarling, PerfectMatch, True, Be2, Parship, Meetic and others) that all they did until now were scamming paying members with marketing and credit card billing trickery.

iDate 2012 funny agenda!

2011-12-21T22:52:00.000-03:00

Internet Dating Industry Super Conference 2012

PRE-EVENT: January 23, 2012
9:00 AM Introduction to the Online Dating Business
Speaker: Mark Brooks
He is going to regurgitate the same stats since 2004.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company's long term strategy and innovations. The biggest scammers are not from Ghana or Nigeria. They are precisely marketing executives from big sites. They use credit card billing trickery. Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry since years. The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created. There is no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms. No one compatibility matching method is Scientifically Proven.
The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with a low effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms (less than 10%).
The Online Dating Industry needs a major cataclysm to extinguish the big, old and obsolete dinosaurs (eHarmony, Match/Chemistry, PerfectMatch, Meetic, Parship, etc)

9:00 AM Business Models for Matchmaking
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.
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DAY ONE: January 24, 2012

8:55 AM
Keynote Address: Then and Now: The Online Dating Industry & How it All Began
Speaker: Gary Kremen (the founder of Match) will discuss how the company was started in 1994, how it developed over the years and where the industry is now???
Kremen sold Match in early stage. What does he really know about the Online Dating Industry and the Innovations it needs? Nothing.

10:45 AM
2011 Year in Review: The Online Personals Industry
Speaker: Mark Brooks
Jazzed failed / eHarmony Japan called iHamoni never launched / eHarmony USA, CA, UK, AU losing traffic / eDarling, copycat or eHarmony in 11 countries failed to take off, stagnated with fewer paid clients and Match failed with Chemistry, a 6+ years old and obsolete site, a complete fiasco and MeeticAffinity in Europe, another HOAX.
PlentyOfFish, the wolf in sheep's clothing, had been only making noise in the Online Dating Industry, but it can not revolutionize nothing. It failed to be the next free eHarmony with its PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, then renamed to the PlentyOfFish Marriage Predictor, then renamed again PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, then failed with eVow, its entirely paid proposal, then will fail with its new paid UltraMatch feature, a Behavioural Recommendation Engine. (little birdie told me it does not perform as expected, and nearly nobody pays for that feature)
eDarling will collapse, like Parship (eCift in Turkey)
Expect a NEW major Lawsuit in USA against paid dating sites for fraud (fake profiles, inactive profiles and automatic rebilling trickery), like the one about Power Balance Bracelets lawsuit.
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DAY TWO: January 25, 2012

DATING BUSINESS: EQUITY AND VALUE
9:00 AM Equity: How A Dating Business is sold for USD50 Million
Speaker: Sam Yagan from OKCupid
That sold was only a lucky strike, nothing more.

THE ERIC HOLZLE MEMORIAL SESSION: DATING ALGORITHM TRACK
10:30 AM [PANEL] Dating Algorithms
Speaker: Dr. Pepper Schwartz, the brain behind PerfectMatch, based on an ipsative test, the MBTI, obsolete site, in decadence.
Speaker: Gavin Potter, Intro Analytics, an stupidity behavioural recommender system, useless at all for serious dating
Speaker: Sam Yagan OKCupid, Yagan is working for Match at OkCupidLabs trying to copy LIFEPROJECT method, I suspect.
Speaker: Dr. Eli Finkel, science of attraction, but what is important in attracting people to one another IS NOT important in making couples happy!
Speaker: Larry Michael Match Matrix, an stupidity based on modified biorhythms.

11:00 AM Trends in High-end Online Dating
Speaker: Philipp Triebel (CEO) ExistVenture (IvyDate)
Ha, ha, ha, I know him and he is not an expert in the High-end Online Dating.

WORLDWIDE DATING MARKETS
1:30 PM The European Dating Market
Speaker: Peter Schmid (CEO) Parship
Parship is a HOAX and a 10+ years old obsolete site with any scientific support!

2:00 PM South American Dating Market
Speaker: Sebastian Hofman Laursen (Gerente General) Net Innovation Group
Ha, ha, ha, he had failed in South America with DatingChile and DatingArgentina.
Remember, the FREE model is dead!
Free Online Dating Sites, ads supported only like OasisActive, AmorenLinea, DatingChile or DatingArgentina, had failed even in the South American Market, where nobody has credits cards or nobody wants to pay for a membership.
Only ads supported sites failed because operating costs are bigger than revenue; and other previously free sites had morphed to freemium ones like OkCupid and PlentyOfFish; they both had paid options with their free proposals.

2:00 PM Science & Technology Trends in Online Dating
Speaker: Linda van Liempt (CEO) Soul2Match
Although Soul2Match's and FindYourFaceMate's personality similarity approach are correct, how they assess personality (indirect method to measure the Big5 traits, ADDS DISTORTION to the measurement) and how Soul2Match and Find Your FaceMate calculate similarity (low precision method, I guess similarity is calculated using Pearson's product moment coefficient) is incorrect.
Compatibility is expressed only as a percentage, from 0% to 100%.
Soul2Match and Find Your FaceMate suffer from the range convergence phenomenon I had discovered during 2003. That range convergence phenomenon is what I had called "the online dating sound barrier"
Who independently validated and independently certified how that profiling technology correlates with the Big5 traits?
I will want to see a paper showing Soul2Match/Find Your FaceMate correlates with the Big5 traits (like the one for the Dewey Color System showing its correlation with the 16PF and the distortion it adds.)
"FaceReader from Profiler1: Personality Traits analysis based on facial features." a complete waste of time for serious daters because it uses an ipsative model, not a normative one.

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DAY THREE: January 26, 2012
10:40 AM iDate Startup: Startup Company
Speaker: Brian Bowman (CEO) theCompleteme
Thecompleteme is an online social dating company founded by a former VP Match who is not an entrepreneur; he is only a "marketinero", a smoke seller, but he can not innovate in nothing. It is not going to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

11:20 AM iDate Startup: Startup Company
Speaker: Lorenz Bogaert (CEO) TWOO
TWOO? The same as theCompleteme, a copycat of Badoo, Yangutu, Mamboo, etc
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ONLY ONE ROAD TO ACHIEVE INNOVATIONS The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations, but the innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment. Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (FORGET Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences)
III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
WorldWide, there are over 5,000 online dating sites but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar test) to assess personality of its members.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
All the new & fresh research shows STRICT personality similarity as the right road to go.
Even in Personality Based Recommender Systems, which are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform FAR better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users.

eHarmony and IAC's Personals will launch new compatibility (personality profiling) sites, both using copycats of the 16PF5 test. I had put them under high pressure revealing in advance their plans to each other. I had challenged them to offer Compatibility Distribution Curves for each and every dater, i.e. how compatible you are with the rest of the daters.
I will be posting screenshots and insightful comments soon, comparing both proposals in my blog. My bet is both Match and eHarmony are going to fail with those new sites. They need the knowledge I have about how to compare quantized patterns with high precision.
Remember: eHarmony had stayed 11 years in the Online Dating Industry without innovating, saying "scientifically proven" and eHarmony does not have any proof; with a low success rate and high level of false positives, scamming members with automatic rebilling and other credit cards trickery.

Breaking “the online dating sound barrier” is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!

The only way to achieve that is:
- using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5.
The ensemble of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 6.7 * 10E9
- expressing compatibility with eight decimals, like The pattern 6.7.6.8.9.6.7.7.8.7.2.5.8.7.3.4 is 92.55033557% +/- 0.00000001% similar to the pattern 7.7.6.8.8.7.6.5.8.7.4.5.7.7.3.4
Using a quantized pattern comparison method (part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation) to calculate similarity between prospective mates.

That is the only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

All other proposals are .............. NOISE

The Worldwide Online Dating Market 2012 / Spanish version.

2011-12-21T00:07:00.002-03:00

Los sitios de citas online (online dating, contactos personales) pueden ser
1.0: potentes motores de búsquedas,
ó
2.0: potentes motores de recomendación bidireccionales (como Match) algunos basados en preferencias personales y otros en comportamiento (behavioural recommender systems)
ó
3.0: algoritmos de compatibilidad (como eHarmony/eDarling, MeeticAffinity, Parship, Chemistry, etc).

La mayoría de los sitios de citas online usan modelos de personalidad normativos como el Big5 o modelos propietarios ipsativos (de autodescripción), no hay ninguno que use el test normativo de personalidad 16PF5. Hay más de 5.000 sitios de contactos personales en el mundo pero todos están en el orden de 3 o 4 personas que presentan como "compatibles" por cada 1.000 escaneadas, o sea una muy baja precisión, baja tasa de éxito en formación de parejas estables y felices menor al 10%. Funcionan como si fueran un casino virtual, las personas que logran éxito son una minoría. Además en online dating, el sitio es exitoso si pierde los clientes porque lograron pareja estable, los debe perder de a 2. No tiene repetición de compra pero si recomendación.

A nivel mundial la Industria de Contactos Personales (Online Dating) factura más de 2.000 millones de dólares (Match/Chemistry/OkCupid/YahooPersonals/People's Media Communities/Meetic/MeticAffinity: 650 millones de dólares anuales, eHarmony: 280 millones de dólares, PlentyOfFish 40 millones de dólares)
En toda Latinoamérica el mercado potencial es enorme, pero sólo hay propuestas de mala calidad. Algunas ya extintas como Pachetes, AlguienAQuienQuerer, Be2, CupidoVirtual de Meetic (asociado a MercadoLibre); y las vigentes como Match, TeBusco y Zonacitas están en decadencia desde hace años porque son propuestas del tipo 1.0, motores de búsqueda; gerenciadas por marketineros que no saben cómo innovar ni cuáles son las últimas tendencias en la Industria de Online Dating.
Zonacitas tiene un "traffic rank" de 1,330 en Argentina en diciembre de 2011 según Alexa.

Hay otros jugadores como Cupid plc (antes EasyDate) que desea ofrecer su propuesta en Latinoamérica, además de otros proyectos lanzados durante 2011 como DatingArgentina, DatingChile, OasisActive AmorenLinea pero por ser modelos gratuito, que recaudan dinero mayormente por anuncios publicitarios, no lograron despegar, posiblemente porque los costos operativos superan los ingresos. CitasWeb intentó resucitar en Facebook durante 2011 pero fracasó.
El grupo europeo Meetic que en Brasil incluye ParPerfeito está en decadencia, fue vendido en su totalidad a IAC's Personals, dueña de Match, Chemistry y otros sitios.

eHarmony es un sitio de contactos personales serios basado en valores Cristianos y en similitud de personalidad, orientado principalmente a países angloparlantes (Estados Unidos, Canadá, Australia y Gran Bretaña) aunque lanzaron la versión Brasileña sin éxito y fracasaron también en Japón. La personalidad se mide con el Big5 (grandes 5 factores de personalidad) y la similitud se calcula usando Escala de Ajuste Diádico (DAS) inventada por Spanier en 1976. Tiene una tasa de éxito de menos del 10%. El problema no está en la honestidad de las personas que toman el test, sino en la forma de calcular similitud con DAS y en medir la personalidad con Big5 y no con el 16PF5.
eDarling es un rebranding de eHarmony en varios países Europeos como España, Italia, Francia, Alemania, Polonia, Rusia, Turquía y otros.
También fracasó Jazzed, el sitio de búsqueda de eHarmony, y eHarmony Japón (iHamoni) no fue lanzado.

Los sitios de contactos personales de uso gratuito como OKCupid y PlentyOfFish sólo sirven para convertir usuarios en clientes de sitios de contactos pagos como Chemistry y eHarmony una vez que esos usuarios se cansan emocionalmente de perder tiempo en sitios gratuitos, llenos de perfiles falsos. Más del 90% de la publicidad que se muestra en sitios de contactos gratuitos es de publicidad de sitios de contactos pagos.
Aunque durante 2011, tanto OKCupid y PlentyOfFish pasaron a ser sitios freemium, incluyendo opciones pagas como UltraPareja de PlentyOfFish, también llamando UltraMatch en Estados Unidos y Canadá; que es un motor de recomendación basado en comportamiento.

Desde 2003 que he estado testeando varios sitios de contactos personales usando perfiles falsos como marcadores.
Todos los sitios de contactos personales pagos a nivel mundial están estancados y algunos en decadencia porque sólo están respaldados por grandes presupuestos de marketing y no por evidencia científica seria. No hay ninguno que pueda demostrar -en un paper con referato y usando el método de doble_ciego- que el algoritmo de compatibilidad que ofrecen, puede formar parejas que vayan a tener una estabilidad y una satisfacción mayor que las parejas formadas por búsqueda propia, por azar, por destino astrológico o con otro método como grupo de control. La única forma de innovar es aprovechando los últimos descubrimientos científicos sobre teorías de relaciones románticas con compromiso.

Para las propuestas como speeddating (citas rápidas), desafortunadamente está científicamente probado por los Dres. Kurzban y Weeden (2005) que investigaron en HurryDate, que la mayoría de los participantes van con ciertas pretensiones que se desvanecen apenas se conocen personalmente y es sólo para relaciones románticas de corto plazo, para una gratificación instantánea.
Los Dr. Eastwick & Finkel (2008) descubrieron que las personas a menudo tienen pretensiones de preferencias de pareja que no son compatibles con sus opciones en la vida real.
En 2010 fue replicado y ampliado ese descubrimiento por el Dr. Lars Penke y colaboradores
En el trabajo científico (paper) "Why Mate Choices are not as Reciprocal as we Assume: The Role of Personality, Flirting and Physical Attractiveness / ¿Por qué la selección de pareja no es tan recíproca como suponemos?: El papel de la personalidad, coqueteo y el atractivo físico" (2010)
Los resultados muestran que las elecciones reales de pareja no son recíprocas, aunque las personas esperan de ser correspondidas con sus elecciones.
y en
"From Dating to Mating and Relating: Predictors of Initial and Long-Term Outcomes of Speed-Dating in a Community Sample. De Citas a formar parejas y de éstas al compromiso. Predictores de resultados iniciales y a largo plazo en citas rápidas en una muestra de Alemania" (2010)
Un estudio de 1 año de duración entre participantes de speeddating encontró, la probabilidad de formar pareja era de 6% y que esa pareja fuera estable de 4% y dependía del interés de largo plazo en las mujeres y del corto plazo en los varones. Los 3 minutos para tomar decisiones en speeddating no eran suficientes para descubrir todos los factores de similitud entre los prospectivos cónyuges.

MatchMatrix es un sitio de contactos personales basado en biorritmos modificados, sólo solicita ingresar la fecha de nacimiento de uno y de la posible pareja para calcular un porcentaje de compatibilidad. Es un fraude que fue refutado por el Dr. James Houran de los Estados Unidos de América.

Match funciona un sitio 1.0, pero la opción Cupido Diario (Daily5) de Match en Argentina, es equivalente a Chemistry en Estados Unidos (allá son sitios separados, Match y Chemistry, pero en el resto del mundo Chemistry se renombra como Daily5 y es un apéndice de Match)
Chemistry es 3.0, un algoritmo de compatibilidad, que divide a las personas en Explorers / Exploradores, Builders / Tradicionales, Directors / Líderes y Negotiatiors / Negociadores y combinaciones de ellas. Hasta ahora sólo demostró que los Explorers buscan a los Explorers para formar parejas, los Builders a otros Builders y los Directors a los Negotiatiors y viceversa, pero no pudo demostrar que puede formar parejas estables con alta satisfacción y estabilidad en un paper científico con referato.

La Dra. Helen Fisher (antropóloga) descubrió durante 2004/2005 usando resonancia magnética para escanear el cerebro de personas locamente enamoradas, que existen 4 circuitos cerebrales básicos relacionados con el nivel de hormonas y la etapa INICIAL de relaciones románticas. El de la serotonina, el de la dopamina, el de los estrógenos y el de la testosterona. Estos 4 circuitos cerebrales se combinan para dar 3 sistemas, el de la lujuria, el del amor_romántico y el del compromiso (apego). Su trabajo científico se aprovechó en un sitio de contactos personales (citas en la web) denominado Chemistry con relativo/poco éxito hasta ahora porque no ha podido demostrar en forma fehaciente que su método pueda formar parejas que van a tener una estabilidad y una satisfacción mayor que las parejas formadas por búsqueda propia como grupo de control.

ScientificMatch, Basisnote, Genepartner (LittleHint) y los que ofrecen DNA matching, son un fraude porque están basados en el experimento de la remera sudada (T-shirt experiment) donde un grupo de mujeres calificaban olores a sudor de varones como atractivos, neutros o repulsivos. En algunos casos las mujeres se sentían atraídas por el olor a sudor de un varón que tuviera un Complejo Principal de Histocompatibilidad (MHC) lo más diferente al de ellas (no atraídas por el varón, sino por el olor a sudor del varón impregnado en una camiseta) Fue refutado por Alvergne & Lummaa en "Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?" 2009 Las mujeres que tienen sus períodos en forma normal presentan preferencias de selección de pareja de corto (en la fase ovulatoria) y largo plazo; mientras que las mujeres que usan tratamientos anticonceptivos hormonales (que simulan la concentración de hormonas del embarazo), anulan su preferencia de selección de pareja de corto plazo, buscan pareja estable, eligen compañeros similares a ellas en MHC

Match, Zonacitas, TeBusco, y otros sitios poseen un dossier de estadísticas y de frases hechas para contestarle al periodismo. Están gerenciados por marketineros, que no son especialistas en online dating, ni pueden innovar.
Al chequear el ranking y el tráfico de esos sitios usando Alexa se nota que no son tan populares como dicen y al confeccionar perfiles falsos (comodines) tanto de varones como de mujeres se pueder probar la dinámica de tales sitos, cómo es su funcionamiento real y descubrir que hay perfiles fichados desde hace años pero que son inactivos, que online dating permite buscar rápidamente a la persona que uno desearía encontrar pero lo más probable que esa persona no exista o que no quiera saber nada de uno porque no son compatibles. Que en un sitio 1.0, un motor de búsqueda, el 20% de los varones más activos son los que mandan el 80% de los mensajes a las mujeres, las mujeres generalmente nunca inician los contactos, sólo esperan ser contactadas, que las fotos de las mujeres están retocadas, hermoseadas, que los perfiles están maquillados usando autoalabanzas (los varones dicen ser más altos de lo que en realidad son y las mujeres dicen ser más bellas y flacas de lo que en realidad son).
Sitios como Pachetes y AlquienAQuienQuerer fracasaron porque ofrecían la misma propuesta actualmente vigente, no pudieron innovar, no se diferenciaban en nada de competidores, que en online dating cuando la base de datos se duplica, los costos operativos se triplican o cuatriplican, que muy pocos son los usuarios activos (que usan el sitio con asiduidad o que lo usaron en los últimos 3 meses) y menos los que pagan, que la estrategia de marketing es atraer usuarios prospectivos, tratar de convertirlos en clientes pagos y luego reternerlos indefinidamente con renovación automática si pagaron con tarjeta de crédito [Be2 colapsó por ese motivo, por automatic rebilling, estuvo bajo investigación por fraude en Europa], que las empresas no dan de baja los perfiles antiguos, los dejan como señuelos para seguir atrayendo potenciales clientes pagos, que si la campaña de marketing la hace un marketinero varón pensando la mujer de sus sueños que él quisiera conquistar, el sitio atrae varones y espanta mujeres, en menos de 6 meses colapsa solo porque no tiene perfiles femeninos.
Hace años que se sabe que aproximadamente el 30% de las personas que usan online dating son casadas o están en pareja y quieren una aventura (flirteo) o conseguir una pareja mejor.

Dos trabajos científicos recientes realizados por investigadores contratados por la propia Facebook muestran que Facebook, como toda red social, es para contactarse con personas que uno conoce de antemano y no para conocer gente nueva, no es para hacer nuevos amigos. J. Ugander, B. Karrer, L. Backstrom, C. Marlow. "The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph" y L. Backstrom, P. Boldi, M. Rosa, J. Ugander, S. Vigna. "Four Degrees of Separation".
En Facebook hay varias aplicaciones de dating pero son todas para flirteo, para búsqueda de relaciones de corto plazo sin compromiso, no para formación de parejas estables.
Las redes sociales no son para citas en línea / buscar pareja (online dating) con fines serios. Hay 3 categorías independientes: redes sociales, contactos laborales y online dating que las personas que se toman su actividad profesional en serio y la búsqueda de contactos personales en serio, nunca mezclan con redes sociales.
Por eso la categoría conocida como "social dating" ofrecida por Badoo, Yangutu, Mamboo, TheCompleteMe, Twoo y otras son para gratificaciones instantáneas, para flirteo y no para fines serios.
Hay varios trabajos de investigación importantes realizados en Norteamérica y Europa que muestran que los perfiles de las redes sociales están "maquillados" con "autopresentaciones selectivas" y "autoalabanzas a la propia imagen" y los "amigos de tus amigos" u otras personas que no conozcan en persona de antemano al perfil que quieren evaluar van a tener una impresión falsa y se van a decepcionar. El único componente de la personalidad que es bien evaluado viendo perfiles es la Extraversión. [What lies beneath: The linguistic traces of deception in online dating profiles 2010 / Making Sense of Strangers' Expertise from Signals in Digital Artifacts 2009 / Personality Impressions Based on Facebook Profiles 2007]

Legislación: Sólo en Japón y Australia para algunos casos se exige fotocopia de la licencia de conducir para demostrar que el usuario/cliente es mayor de 18 años.

Normas de Calidad: El sitio Indio Shaadi es el único que posee calidad total en cuanto soporte y atención al cliente según ISO9001:2008

Los últimos trabajos científicos con referato, siguen la línea de SIMILITUD DE PERSONALIDAD entre los integrantes de una pareja para un matrimonio exitoso. Dos investigadores alemanes, Rammstedt & Schupp ( "Sólo los congruentes sobreviven. Similitud de personalidad en parejas" / "Only the congruent survive – Personality similarities in couples" 2008) analizaron 6909 parejas adultas representativas de la población Alemana, de diferentes edades y con varios años de matrimonio y descubrieron que sólo una gran similitud de personalidad entre los integrantes de una pareja es lo que sustenta la estabilidad de la misma y la satisfacción de sus integrantes; o sea las relaciones románticas de largo plazo con compromiso son exitosas si los integrantes de la pareja poseen una gran similitud de personalidad entre sí.
Hay otros trabajos científicos que muestran lo mismo (Charania & Ickes, 2009 / Rammstedt & Schupp, 2008 / Barelds & Dijkstra, 2008 / McCrae, Martin, Hrebícková, Urbánek, Boomsma et al. 2008 y otros) Siempre sucede que las personas con características opuestas se atraen, pero luego de un tiempo, se atacan entre sí (Buckwalter, 2005)

Muy pocas personas en el mundo están trabajando en mejorar los sitios de contactos personales, porque la mejora que hay que hacer no es en un 10% o en un 15%, sino en 100 veces mejor lo que ofrecen los competidores actuales en Estados Unidos, Canadá y Europa. Es romper una "barrera de sonido", porque no es realmente una mejora (improvement) sino una innovación (innovation). Lo que traen a la Argentina y LatinoAmérica son imitaciones de menor calidad de sitios de contactos personales (imitations) como CitasWeb, ZonaCitas, TeBusco, OasisActive, AmorenLinea, DatingArgentina, etc

Por eso mi blog se llama "Breaking the Online Dating Sound Barrier" y presento mi propio proyecto de online dating LIFEPROJECT METHOD

La única forma de innovar en el mercado de online dating es aprovechando los últimos descubrimientos científicos sobre teorías de relaciones románticas con compromiso, sólo una gran similitud de personalidad entre los cónyuges prospectivos es la clave para formación de parejas estables y felices.

Hay varias formas de medir personalidad y varias formas de calcular similitud entre patrones de personalidad.
Mi propio proyecto propone usar el test normativo de personalidad 16PF5 para medir personalidad.
El test normativo 16PF5 codifica la personalidad con 16 variables cuantizadas que toman valores de 1 a 10, por eso el conjunto de todas las posibilidades válidas es de 10E16 y la población mundial es de 7.0*10E9 Toda la población mundial no llega a ser 1 micro parte del ensemble del 16PF5. Muy pocas personas en el mundo están en condiciones de diseñar un método cuantitativo para comparar miles o millones de patrones cuantizados de personalidad entre sí con alta precisión, con por lo menos 8 decimales; sabiendo que es sólo una gran similitud de personalidad la clave para formación de parejas estables y felices, y eso es lo que inventé hace años y estoy tratando de lanzar al mercado, sin exito todavía.

Parship receives a make up.

2011-12-15T03:18:00.000-03:00

Meanwhile the people at eHarmony and IAC's Personals are both developing new compatibility sites, Parship receives only a make up, a new cover for the same book, a new collar for the same dog, er ... the same HOAX as 10 years ago.

Parship is a 10+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX.

"Parship’s scientifically-based compatibility matching compares 30 essential personality characteristics and recommends potential partners who balance and complement you." Those 30 essential personality characteristics are only the subdomains of the Big 5 model, 6 subdomains per trait.

Recently some stupid investors had put 3 Million Euro in eCift. eCift is Parship simplified and rebranded for the Turkish market.

The free model is dead

2011-12-14T00:33:00.000-03:00

Have you noticed the purely free model is DEAD?

Free Online Dating Sites, ads supported only like OasisActive, AmorenLinea, DatingChile or DatingArgentina, had failed even in the South American Market, where nobody has credits cards or nobody wants to pay for a membership.

Only ads supported sites failed because operating costs are bigger than revenue; and other previously free sites had morphed to freemium ones like OkCupid and PlentyOfFish; they both had paid options with their free proposals. They encourage you to upgrade your membership, to acquire their paid features like credits to send virtual gifts or to increase your visibility or to know if someone had read the message you had sent to.
Freemium sites also includes social dating sites like Badoo, Mamboo, Yangutu and others like them with several lines of revenue like ads, micropayments, selling data from their databases to third parties.
Freemium Online Dating Sites are only for fun, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification, not for serious dating.

Purely paid sites will be only for serious dating. If a person does not pay his/her membership, it is because he/she does not want to be serious dating online.

Thecompleteme.

2011-12-09T01:54:00.000-03:00

As expected/predicted here in this blog Thecompleteme is another Badoo copycat (like Mamboo, Yangutu, Twoo, etc)

Thecompleteme is an online social dating company founded by a former VP Match who is not an entrepreneur; he is only a "marketinero", a smoke seller, but he can not innovate in nothing. It is not going to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

My bet: they are going to make some noise, peak and decay when they run out of money.

Online Dating Industry 2012, full predictions.

2011-12-07T20:52:00.000-03:00

eHarmony and IAC's Personals will launch new compatibility (personality profiling) sites, both using copycats of the 16PF5 test. I had put them under high pressure revealing in advance their plans to each other. I had challenged them to offer compatibility distribution curves.
I will be posting screenshots and insightful comments soon, comparing both proposals in my blog. My bet is both Match and eHarmony are going to fail with those new sites. They need the knowledge I have about how to compare quantized patterns with high precision.
Remember: eHarmony had stayed 11 years in the Online Dating Industry without innovating, saying "scientifically proven" and eHarmony does not have any proof; with a low success rate and high level of false positives, scamming members with automatic rebilling and other credit cards trickery. (Jazzed failed / eHarmony Japan called iHamoni never launched / eHarmony USA, CA, UK, AU losing traffic / eDarling, copycat or eHarmony in 11 countries failed to take off, stagnated with fewer paid clients) and Match failed with Chemistry, a 6+ years old and obsolete site, a complete fiasco and MeeticAffinity in Europe, another HOAX.

PlentyOfFish, the wolf in sheep's clothing, had been only making noise in the Online Dating Industry, but it can not revolutionize nothing. It failed to be the next free eHarmony with its PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, then renamed to the PlentyOfFish Marriage Predictor, then renamed again PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, then failed with eVow, its entirely paid proposal, then will fail with its new paid UltraMatch feature, a Behavioural Recommendation Engine. (little birdie told me it does not perform as expected, and nearly nobody pays for that feature)

eDarling will collapse, like Parship (eCift in Turkey)

Expect a NEW major Lawsuit in USA against paid dating sites for fraud (fake profiles, inactive profiles and automatic rebilling trickery), like the one about Power Balance Bracelets lawsuit.

Expect a major publicized hacking incident again at PlentyOfFish. Meetic was also hacked last January 2011 was not publicized. In July 4th 2011 Match was hacked but it was not publicized.

True and PerfectMatch will be game over, they both failed to be reconverted.

Zoosk, will be the next Stupid Investors Series, they will lose over USD 40 million.

Badoo will be revealed as a big fraud, full of inactive and fake profiles.
Social Dating is a complete waste of time because "social networks" are for meeting the people you know in advance, not for meeting new people for dating or make new friends. There are 2 papers "The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph" and "Four Degrees of Separation" cited in the article "Facebook users average 4.74 degrees of separation"

I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)

The summer will begin soon here in South America, with January the hottest month. The wind blowing from the North is very, very hot. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, see why your brain distorts.

Badoo 2011 revenue revealed

2011-12-07T01:04:00.000-03:00

An article at TechCrunch says Badoo 2011 revenue is USD 100 million

Badoo has 5 main revenue streams:
1) Ads: as I use Firefox with AdBlock Plus addon, I do not see those ads.
2) Selling data from its database to third parties.
3) By subscriptions but it is not mandatory/necessary to pay in order to communicate with other members.
I estimate 300,000 persons paying USD 25 per 3 months (on average)
In South America conversion rate less than 1% (revealed in a previous interview)
4) Virtual gifts: LatinAmericans, persons from "Hispanic origin" are not fond of paying to send virtual gifts as the Asiatics do.
I estimate worldwide 2 million persons sending 3 annually virtual gifts on average. Each virtual gift costs USD 2.00 On a 50% revenue share basis for Badoo and 50% for the carrier.
5) Paying to increase visibility.
my bet is 5 million persons paying USD 2.00, twice a year (on average) to increase their visibility (and popularity - they are mostly men) on a 50% revenue share basis for Badoo and 50% for the carrier.

I had estimated Badoo's 2011 worldwide annual revenue: in the range of USD 46 million from streams 3), 4) and 5).

Badoo is a social dating for fun and I had tested using some dummy f/m profiles and I guess 95% of Badoo's active database are men and only 5% women. It is severely unbalanced.

Online Dating Industry 2012 State of the Art

2011-12-04T19:15:00.000-03:00

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites but no one is using the 16PF5 to assess personality of its members!

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites but no one is scientifically proven!

Actual online dating sites offering compatibility matching methods are only fueled by big marketing budgets and not by serious scientific evidence. No one ( eHarmony/eDarling, Chemistry, PerfectMatch, PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, MeeticAffinity, Be2, RewardingLove, Parship, True, etc) can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer_reviewed Scientific Paper. They are all like placebo, because
* Actual online dating sites offering compatibility matching methods, when calculating compatibility between prospective mates, have less or at least the same precision as searching on one's own. [in the range of 3 or 4 persons compatible per 1,000 persons screened]
* That is because they use:
a) simplified versions of personality traits, instead of the 16PF5 or similar with the complete inventory (16 variables)
b) inadequate quantitative methods to calculate compatibility between prospective mates, like eHarmony which uses Dyadic Adjustment Scale or other sites which use multivariate linear / logistic regression equations o other equations.

Although Mr. Verba, the new eHarmony's CEO had ordered eHarmony's Team (Carter, Gonzaga, Lee) to stop playing the guitar at eHarmony's Labs and began working in a completely new matching algorithm using a copycat of the 16PF5 to assess personality, instead of the Big5. They plan to launch in few weeks because eHarmony had stayed 11 years in the Online Dating Industry without innovating, saying "scientifically proven" and eHarmony does not have any proof; with a low success rate and high level of false positives, scamming members with automatic rebilling and other credit cards trickery.
Moreover I had sent several emails to alert them (since May 2011) Match's Team is secretely testing a new compatibility matching algorithm using the 16PF5 test, to replace Chemistry, a 6+ years old and obsolete site.
I will be posting screenshots and insightful comments soon, comparing both proposals.
I had also challenged both eHarmony and Match to offer Compatibility Distribution Curves for each and every dater, i.e. how compatible you are with the rest of the daters.
Both eHarmony and Match will need to acquire a Cray, Fujitsu or Hitachi supercomputer OR over a 1,000 high speed servers arrangement due to the high volume of floating point operations you need to calculate similarity between quantized patterns using the 16PF5 test. (In this case compatibility is equal to similarity)

In the "first run" you not only need to calculate similarity between each and every women compared to men, but also men to men similarity to avoid women seeing men as all the same, and women to women similarity to avoid men seeing women as all the same.

I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

Breaking “the online dating sound barrier” is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!

The only way to achieve that is:
- using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5.
The ensemble of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 6.7 * 10E9
- expressing compatibility with eight decimals, like The pattern 6.7.6.8.9.6.7.7.8.7.2.5.8.7.3.4 is 92.55033557% +/- 0.00000001% similar to the pattern 7.7.6.8.8.7.6.5.8.7.4.5.7.7.3.4
Using a quantized pattern comparison method (part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation) to calculate similarity between prospective mates.

That is the only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

All other proposals are .............. NOISE

Stupid Investors Series, Today: eCift

2011-12-03T21:47:00.000-03:00

eCift is Parship simplified and rebranded for the Turkish market.

Parship is a 10+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX. Nobody knows its brain, Dr. Hugo Schmale (79 years old?).
I am really astonished to see how Parship can promote its "Personality Test based on scientific principles." (Machen Sie unseren wissenschaftlichen Persönlichkeitstest) in some countries without any Scientific Proof.

Nor eCift nor Parship are going to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, they BOTH are OBSOLETE and a HOAX.

I hope those stupid investors will lose 3 Million Euro invested in eCift.

POF Argentina paid site with Automatic Rebilling clause

2011-12-02T03:07:00.001-03:00

PlentyOfFish, the wolf in sheep's clothing. It has paid features inside its "free" proposal.
UltraPareja is the UltraMatch feature, a Behavioural Recommendation Engine. (little birdie told me it does not perform as expected, and nearly nobody pays for that feature)

As predicted at PlentyOfFish International Plans, the owner plans to launch local sites in Latin American Countries.

The entire site design is terrible, looks like an old quilt all patched.
The owner should hire his own wife's services to redesign entirely PlentyOfFish (rebranded as POF in some countries)

"carro" means car in Mexico, but Argentina uses "auto" instead.

birth order item is useless at all, a complete waste of time, it adds more "noise than signal" to the predictor they are tuning.

PlentyOfFish, Plenty of Rubbish Tests, all home grown! No one was peer reviewed or published in any Scientific Paper. Please remember normative tests can not be simply translated, because you need the norm for those tests, and that norm is actualized each and every time Census Figures are released.

The main test, the PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, is a HOAX.

PlentyOfFish tried to be the next "free eHarmony" but made 3 mistakes.

Sexy Girls at POF? What does it mean? You need to upgrade to paid member to use that feature.

When you click to upgrade, this warning message appears from Firefox. (The majority of South Americans use Firefox 8.0 with Adblock Plus Add-on, Windows XP service pack 2 operating system with 512M of RAM, AVG antivirus free edition 2011 and 1Mbps Internet Broadband. If you want to test how something performs you should use than combo for South American countries).

The IM (chat feature)

eSynchrony

2011-12-01T21:34:00.001-03:00

I had reviewed eSynchrony last January. It had no traffic at all.

Now it has no traffic at all.
eSynchrony is like a copycat of eHarmony, a compatibility matching method that is a HOAX.

eSynchrony is "improving" its compatibility quiz to create better matches.
"Marriage statistics show money issues is a leading cause for divorce. Hence, we take financial compatibility very seriously when it comes to finding you suitable matches. "

Huntcha

2011-11-30T22:56:00.000-03:00

Huntcha, a new social dating feature, requires you to sign up using Facebook and to list up to 9 persons you would like to date. If one of them also likes you, a pop up window appears and both of those persons can communicate.

"Huntcha is confidential. No one will know what you're doing on Huntcha, your profile and candidates list is private information. Huntcha works through Facebook, because it's the best way to prevent identity theft. First, create a list with the people you like. You can modify your list as many times as you want, but with a maximum of 9 people. If someone on your list also adds you on theirs, it's a match! Huntcha will inform just the two of you that you like each other. Once a match is made, a message window will be available for you to make contact."

Huntcha claims 20,000 users, but Alexa does not register traffic.

The owners had invested 50 Million Chilean Pesos -CLP- (almost USD 95,374) to launch that application in several languages. I do not know how they are going to earn money.

Remember what I had been saying since several years ago:
Social networking/applications could merge with online dating for fun, for flirting, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification.
Social networking and online dating for serious daters are like water and oil, they will never mix.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.

More at "Facebook users average 4.74 degrees of separation"

Traffic rank for many online dating sites

2011-11-28T21:58:00.001-03:00

Alexa shows Zoosk had suffered a sudden drop. I do not think it is due a big mobile adoption rate. Perhaps their daters are becoming tired of Zoosk. Or are they running out of money?

Zoosk in the same road as SmartDate.

PlentyOfFish, steady, in some countries rebranded as POF

PerfectMatch will be game over soon, it was sold to FriendFinder.

ParshipDE, decaying.

OkCupid, steady

Match, steady

Jazzed from eHarmony, game over, complete fiasco

eVow, will be game over soon, complete fiasco from the owners of PlentyOfFish

eHarmony Brazilian version, complete fiasco

eDarling can not take off.
ITALY

FRANCE

SPAIN

GERMANY

Chemistry, steady, the team plans to launch a new compatibility matching algorithm.

Badoo, social dating site for fun, less than 1% conversion rate in Latin America, 95% men and 5% women.

eDarling Russian version, can not take off

eDarling Turkish version, can not take off.

eHarmony Canada, UK and Australia, melting

eHarmony USA is melting. That drop in traffic rank can not be explained due to a massive mobile application adoption rate. eHarmony's team plans to launch a completely new site in few weeks, before February 2012, using a copycat of the 16PF5 to assess personality, instead of the Big5. NEW SITE AND NEW MATCHING ALGORITHM because they are alerted that Match's Team is testing a new compatibility matching algorithm using the 16PF5 test, to replace Chemistry, a 6+ years old and obsolete site based on an IPSATIVE personality model, which also has a low success rate and high level of false positives.

True, game over.

Meetic FR, will be game over soon, 100% owned by IAC's Personals (Match)

MeeticAffinity FR, will be game over soon, 100% owned by IAC's Personals (Match)

HowAboutWe raised USD 15 million from the stupid investors club.

For big sites, Alexa is a fruitful tool!!!

The TWIN Recommender System

2011-11-26T01:41:00.000-03:00

From the 3rd International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents (SMUC 2011) there is an interesting paper

"A Comparative Evaluation of Personality Estimation Algorithms for the TWIN Recommender System"

".. the TWIN (Tell me What I Need) Personality-based Recommender System that analyzes the textual content of the reviews and estimates the personality of the user according to the Big Five model to suggest the reviews written by “twin-minded” people."
"We make an assumption that people having similar personality types would prefer to choose the same hotels as their twin-minded peer travellers. As significant correlations were found between words that people use and specific personality characteristics of the authors (here we consider the Big Five personality model) there is a possibility of creating a personality based user profile that estimates personality traits of the particular individual from the text written by him."
"In this paper we compare the performance of 4 algorithms for estimating the author's personality from the text, using a dataset of user-generated reviews crawled from the TripAdvisor"

WEAK POINTS:
* the authors estimate personality of users analyzing written text from users using M5’ regression tree algorithm (It has DISTORTION)
"the occurrence of the particular words in the particular text reflects the personality of the author."
* the formula applied to calculate similarity, K-Means algorithm
* in some cases, it is value similarity and not personality similarity the key to create bonds, like
Value similarity is the missing link in explaining the musical bonding phenomenon [and not personality similarity], which seems to hold for Western and non-Western samples and in experimental and natural settings. (punch to Behavioural Recommenders.)

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Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform FAR better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users.
Have you seen they need to calculate personality similarity between users?
Have you seen there are different formulas to calculate similarity?
In case you did not notice, recommender systems are morphing to .......... compatibility matching engines!!!
They mostly use the Big5 to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.

LIFEPROJECT METHOD is also suitable for personality based recommender systems because it uses the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5. The ensemble of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 7.0 * 10E9 (estimated OCT 2011)
and
calculates similarity between persons with a quantized pattern comparison method (part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation). It takes into account the score and the trend to score of any pattern.

LIFEPROJECT METHOD is like the Teller Ulam design for recommender systems and the Online Dating Industry.

Entrepreneurship and Personality Traits

2011-11-23T22:19:00.001-03:00

Several Academics had investigated the relationship between Entrepreneurship and Personality Traits.

Some papers:
The Entrepreneur's General Personality Traits and Technological Developments
Which Big-Five personality traits drive entrepreneurial failure in highly innovative industries?
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS: A BEHAVIORAL GENETICS PERSPECTIVE
Entrepreneurial tendencies of aspiring human resources in India: a multivariate analysis

and the Founder Institute has conducted a battery of proprietary personality and aptitude tests on over 3,000 applicants worldwide, and then carefully tracked the progress of (their) nearly 1,000 enrolled founders and 350 graduates. "The research shows that an older age is actually a better predictor of entrepreneurial success, and that three other traits also correlate strongly to success: strong fluid intelligence, high openness, and moderate agreeableness."

but the Big 5 to assess personality is good for orientative purposes and not good enough for predictive purposes.
"Because the Big Five groups the more specific primary-level factors, feedback organized around the five Global Factor scales is more easily understood. For detailed feedback or predictive purposes, one should assess the more specific primary factors. Research has shown that more specific factors like the primary scales of the 16PF Questionnaire predict actual behavior better than the Big 5 Global Factors. For example, one extravert (a bold, fearless, high-energy type) may differ considerably from another (a sweet, warm, sensitive type), depending on the extraversion-related primary scale score patterns, so deeper analysis is typically warranted." Extracted from the 16PF5 Manual

paper using the 16PF
Creativity among entrepreneurship students: comparing engineering and business education

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Moreover prospective entrepreneurs score different from prospective managers / businessmen / businesswomen.
Prospective entrepreneurs mostly score VERY LOW in some specific variables I and M and VERY HIGH in E, Q1 and Q2, like this 16PF5 personality pattern
A:5.B:8.C:7.E:10.F:3.G:8.H:8.I:2.L:7.M:2.N:5.O:5.Q1:10.Q2:9.Q3:5.Q4:4"

Power Balance Bracelets lawsuit

2011-11-23T16:17:00.000-03:00

Power Balance, the company that allegedly duped athletes into believing its bracelets could provide super-human strength, is about to take a USD57 Million hit in a lawsuit filed by people who called BS on the product.

The same could happen to the Online Dating Industry
Match: Fake Profiles Lawsuit
eHarmony / eDarling; claims of scientifically proven
MatchMatrix claims of energetic compatibility
and many more!
because the entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with low successful rates.
The Online Dating Industry is selling elixirs, tonics, snake oil liniments and other patent medicine and performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created where any player can make any claim without any credentials.

The writer and journalist Lori Gottlieb (March 2006) noted about the growing number of Internet dating sites that are using the science of attraction to match singles: "their efforts mark the early days of a social experiment of unprecedented proportions, involving millions of couples and possibly extending over the course of generations"

Are the online daters victims of human experimentation ?

Stupid Investors Series: Today SmartDate

2011-11-22T22:25:00.000-03:00

As predicted by me, SmartDate is game over.
Stupid Investors had lost over Euros 5.5 million.
Congrats to them.

The founder had said in march 2010. "online dating needs to embrace the Facebook phenomenon"

Social networks are for meeting the people you know in advance, not for meeting new people or make new friends.

Next series of Stupid Investors will include:
HowAboutWe (over USD 18 million), which is like MeetUp during 2004
Zoosk (over USD 40.5 million).
Zin.gl
Badoo which is 95% men and 5% women

Remember other Stupid Investors had lost in
Be2 over Euros 15 million
Engage over USD 5 million
Thread
Triangulate
Gelato
Parship

Facebook users average 4.74 degrees of separation

2011-11-22T16:59:00.000-03:00

Interesting article about Facebook, it only shows social networks are for meeting the people you know in advance, not for meeting new people or make new friends.

The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph
"... we characterize the assortativity patterns present in the graph by studying the basic
demographic and network properties of users. We observe clear degree assortativity and characterize the extent to which ‘your friends have more friends than you’."

Four Degrees of Separation

Remember what I had been saying since several years ago:
Social networking/applications could merge with online dating for fun, for flirting, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification.
Social networking and online dating for serious daters are like water and oil, they will never mix.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.

Read also:
You and your friends have very similar minds / FACEBOOK

Personality Distribution Curves using the NORMATIVE 16PF5

2011-11-21T23:43:00.003-03:00

Many of you had studied the normal (or Gaussian) distribution; a continuous probability distribution that has a bell-shaped probability density function.

Other well known distributions are discrete probability distribution.

But, which is the compatibility distribution curve using the NORMATIVE 16PF5 personality test for any given person?
Nobody had published that information for public or Academic scrutiny yet, because
Worldwide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!

My bet, an AVERAGE compatibility (personality similarity) distribution curve using the 16PF5 test is a curve that resembles the SHAPE of the normal distribution;

but EACH compatibility (personality similarity) distribution curve using the 16PF5 test for ANY given person is not necessarily a curve like the normal distribution.

for men and women, normal_persons* over 26 years old.
*normal_persons: persons with 23 pairs of chromosomes and any psycho-patologies.

If you are a dater please do not renew your eHarmony's subscription or Chemistry's subscription yet. eHarmony's team plans to launch a completely new site in few weeks, before February 2012, using a copycat of the 16PF5 to assess personality, instead of the Big5. NEW SITE AND NEW MATCHING ALGORITHM because they are alerted that Match's Team is testing a new compatibility matching algorithm using the 16PF5 test, to replace Chemistry, a 6+ years old and obsolete site based on an IPSATIVE personality model, which also has a low success rate and high level of false positives.
I will be posting screenshots and insightful comments soon, comparing both proposals and check if they can break the "online dating sound barrier" or not.

I had challenged both eHarmony and Match to show those Compatibility Distribution Curves for each and every dater, i.e. how compatible you are with the rest of the daters.

stupid investors, they will loose USD 15 million

2011-11-20T16:55:00.002-03:00

HowAboutWe promotes "Go on dates with people who like what you like"
but If man A likes playing cards and woman B also likes playing cards, that does not mean man A likes woman B, or woman B can like man A with the same intensity or interest.

HowAboutWe is a dating feature, any big online dating site can copy that.

My bet: HowAboutWe will peak and decay like Zoosk during 2010, in the same road as WooMe, 12Like, LittleHint, Zin.gl, SmartDate, Ge.la.to (then rebranded to Twnty) , Triangulate, Engage (then rebranded to Ignither group dating) and Thread, even like Chatroulette.

Remember:
Social networking/applications could merge with online dating for fun, for flirting, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification.
Social networking and online dating for serious daters are like water and oil, they will never mix.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.
The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.
Compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*personality measured with a normative test.
*similarity: there are different ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.

eHarmony Labs & OkCupid Labs

2011-11-19T02:04:00.000-03:00

eHarmony Labs:
The new eHarmony's CEO had ordered eHarmony's Team to develop a new high precision compatibility matching algorithm by strict personality similarity using the NORMATIVE 16PF5 or similar test and launch it in a new site before February 2012.

OkCupid Labs:
Match's Team is testing a new compatibility matching algorithm using the 16PF5 test, to replace Chemistry, a 6+ years old and obsolete site based on an IPSATIVE personality model, which also has a low success rate and high level of false positives.

I had challenged eHarmony and Match to offer Compatibility Distribution Curves for each and every dater, i.e. how compatible you are with the rest of the daters.

Big summary about matching algorithms

2011-11-17T18:00:00.000-03:00

Big summary about matching algorithms for the Online Dating Industry.

The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users.
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life.(FORGET Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences)
III) Compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*personality measured with a normative test.
*similarity: there are different ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.

Matching algorithms do not need to be complex or sophisticated, they need to be effective.

When you evaluate a matching algorithm for the Online Dating Industry, you FIRST need to estimate its resources consumption, the power calculation it requires.

In compatibility matching methods there are 2 steps:
1) to objectively measure personality traits or other human variables (with the 16PF5 test) without distortion.
2) to calculate compatibility between prospective mates

IPSATIVE personality tests are OBSOLETE (self-descriptive questionnaires) and should be discarded: MBTI (PerfectMatch), DISC (ThomasKnowsPeople), Enneagram (Dopasowani) or other proprietary ipsative tests like the ones used at Chemistry, ButterfliesAgain, Doskonalapara, PembePanjur, LittleHint, oneGoodLove and others.

NORMATIVE personality tests like Big5 versions used at PlentyOfFish, eHarmony / eDarling, Meetic Affinity, Parship, Be2, True are good for orientative purposes but not good enough for predictive purposes.

eHarmony / eDarling, True, PerfectMatch, MeeticAffinity, Parship, Be2, PlentyOfFish, Chemistry and others are in the range of 3 to 4 persons compatible per 1,000 persons screened. Any member of those sites receives on average 3 to 4 prospective mates as compatible for dating purposes per 1,000 (one thousand) members screened in the database. So in a 10,000,000 persons database, any member will see 30,000 to 40,000 members as highly compatible; 30,000 persons is the population of an average small city. Any person can achieve 3 to 4 persons as highly compatible per 1,000 persons screened, searching by his/her own or by mutual filtering methods!

eHarmony / eDarling, True, PerfectMatch, MeeticAffinity, Parship, Be2, PlentyOfFish, Chemistry and others have a low effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms.
The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"

LIFEPROJECT METHOD is in the range of 3 persons compatible per 100,000 persons screened, 100 times better than any other.

"Because the Big Five groups the more specific primary-level factors, feedback organized around the five Global Factor scales is more easily understood. For detailed feedback or predictive purposes, one should assess the more specific primary factors. Research has shown that more specific factors like the primary scales of the 16PF Questionnaire predict actual behavior better than the Big 5 Global Factors. For example, one extravert (a bold, fearless, high-energy type) may differ considerably from another (a sweet, warm, sensitive type), depending on the extraversion-related primary scale score patterns, so deeper analysis is typically warranted." Extracted from the 16PF5 Manual

Normative tests can not simply be translated, because you need the norm for that test, and that norm is actualized each and every time Census Figures are released

The 16PF5 test is available in
- English for the United States and the Norm for the United States (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of the United States).
- English for Canada and the Norm for Canada (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Canada)
- English for the United Kingdom and the Norm for the United Kingdom (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of the United Kingdom).
- English for Australia and the Norm for Australia (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Australia).
- French for France and the Norm for France.
- German for Germany and the Norm for Germany.
- Spanish for Spain and the Norm for Spain.
- Italian for Italy and the Norm for Italy.
and many more "With over 60 years of research and application behind it, the 16PF5 has become internationally well known and respected, with over 20 different translated versions."

The output of the 16PF5 test are 16 variables STens (Standard Tens) taking integer values from 1 to 10. STens divide the score scale into ten units.
STens have the advantage that they enable results to be thought of in terms of bands of scores, rather than absolute raw scores. These bands are narrow enough to distinguish statistically significant differences between candidates, but wide enough not to over emphasize minor differences between candidates.

Similarity is a word that has different meanings for different persons or companies, it exactly depends on how mathematically is defined. I calculate similarity in personality patterns with (a proprietary) pattern recognition by correlation method. It takes into account the score and the trend to score of any pattern.

LIFEPROJECT METHOD is like the "Teller Ulam design" for the Online Dating Industry.
In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

Breaking "the online dating sound barrier" is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!

The only way to achieve that is:
- using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5. The ensemble of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 7.0 * 10E9 (estimated OCT 2011)
- expressing compatibility with eight decimals, like The pattern 6.7.6.8.9.6.7.7.8.7.2.5.8.7.3.4 is 92.55033557% +/- 0.00000001% similar to the pattern 7.7.6.8.8.7.6.5.8.7.4.5.7.7.3.4
Using a quantized pattern comparison method (part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation) to calculate similarity between prospective mates.

That is the only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

All other proposals are .............. NOISE

See How LIFEPROJECT METHOD calculates similarity between quantized patterns using an adapted quantum mechanics math equation. All other methods are RUBBISH, because the ensemble of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 7.0 * 10E9 (estimated OCT 2011)

(7.0 * 10E9) / 10E16 == 7.0 * 10E(-7) or 0.7 * 10E(-6) or 0.7 micro part!

All World Population is less than 0.7 micro part of the 16PF5's ensemble.

e.g.the 16PF5 Brazilian version, in Portuguese for Brazil and the Norm for Brazil (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Brazil).

Brazil population is in the range of 190 million persons, 190 * 10E6 == 1.9 * 10E8.
demographic characteristics of Brazil 47.73% White, 43.13% Brown (Multiracial), 7.61% Black, 1.09% Asian, 0.43% Amerindian
(1.9 * 10E8)/ 10E16 == 1.9 * 10E(-8) or 0.019 * 10E(-6) or 0.019 micro part!

Brazil population is 0.019 micro part of the 16PF5's ensemble. You can not use simple regression equations to calculate similarity between quantized patterns because:
* women will "see" men as all the same.
* men will "see" women as all the same.

Do you want to know how to solve than problem?

More plague of rubbish recommender systems

2011-11-17T03:46:00.001-03:00

More plague of rubbish recommender systems, useless at all for online dating purposes because:
The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users.
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life.(FORGET Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences)
III) Compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*personality measured with a normative test.
*similarity: there are different ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.

"Measuring Profile Distance in Online Social Networks"
".... We present a method for comparing user profiles, by measuring the distance between the profiles in metric space"

See How LIFEPROJECT METHOD calculates similarity between quantized patterns using an adapted quantum mechanics math equation. All other methods are RUBBISH, because the ensemble of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 7.0 * 10E9 (estimated OCT 2011)

(7.0 * 10E9) / 10E16 == 7.0 * 10E(-7) or 0.7 * 10E(-6) or 0.7 micro part!

All World Population is less than 0.7 micro part of the 16PF5's ensemble.

other rubbish paper for the online dating industry:
"A Hybrid Content-Collaborative Reciprocal Recommender for Online Dating"
"We present a new recommender system for online dating. Using a large dataset from a major online dating website, we first show that similar people, as defined by a set of personal attributes, like and dislike similar people and are liked and disliked by similar people. This analysis provides the foundation for our reciprocal content-collaborative recommender approach. The content-based part uses selected user profile features and similarity measure to generate a set of similar users. The collaborative filtering part uses the interactions of the similar users, including the people they like/dislike and are liked/disliked by, to produce reciprocal recommendations....."

is the evolution of "CCR - A Content-Collaborative Reciprocal Recommender for Online Dating"

pre paid cards or virtual charge

2011-11-16T00:06:00.000-03:00

Several times I had suggested to Online Dating Companies wanting to enter (or already in) the Latin American Market (Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Peru) to offer pre paid cards as the primary option of payment.

Latin Americans do mostly not have credit cards. The ones who have credit cards, do mostly not use them for subscriptions to avoid automatic rebilling and identity theft. More than 70% of people who own a cell phone, are pre-paid clients. They do not receive bills, they charge credit in their cell phones by 2 methods: Acquiring pre-paid cards at kiosks/drugstores or via virtual charge at kiosks/drugstores/supermarkets or at any place with a PosNet terminal (Banelco or Link)

Badoo offers to pay using SMS via your cell phone, but there were (several) complaints about up to 8 hours of delay from when you send the SMS and your profile is set in top visibility.

Thanks to the readers of this blog.

2011-11-14T00:23:00.000-03:00

Thanks to the readers of this blog.

UltraMatch feature at PlentyOfFish (POF)

2011-11-14T00:02:00.000-03:00

A little birdie told me UltraMatch feature at PlentyOfFish (POF) will be discontinued due to high resources consumption and nearly nobody had paid for that feature.

ONLINE DATING INDUSTRY summary 2011

2011-11-13T23:28:00.001-03:00

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry 2011, the same as 2010.

Since 2003 I had reviewed more than 55 compatibility matching engines and I can say: The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with a low effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms (less than 10%), and new proposals are not better than the old ones.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!

PerfectMatch, Duet Total Compatibility System. eHarmony / eDarling / iHamoni (Japan). MyType from RSVP (it was a copycat of eHarmony in Australia). "MyType - Discover Your Personality Type". Chemistry. "eChemistry - the science of attraction". eSynchrony. OurTime. Match Affinity, Meetic Affinity, Dating Direct Affinity (Ulteem), PartnerDE. OkCupid. Be2. Parship / eCift in Turkey. The PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor. The PlentyOfFish Marriage Predictor. eVow's compatibility matching method. 12Like. LittleHint. datingDNA. Zoosk Scientific Matching Service/System. True. LovePlanetRU. ScientificMatch. Basisnote. GenePartner. RewardingLove. ButterfliesAgain. IntelligentElite. Brainiac Dating. IQ Gorgeous. DoskonalaPara. Nomoredates. ThomasKnowsPeople. MatchMatrix. Moonit. VisualDNA. FriendScout24 BQ check. Clicck. HowAboutWe. Zin.gl WriteMatch. ASoundMatch. Soul2Match. FindYourFaceMate. "FaceReader from Profiler1: Personality Traits analysis based on facial features." Are We Good Together? Opposites Connect. "Yangutu, the science-based online dating site". Energy Profiling. TeAmoRU. PembePanjur. Dopasowani. BrainDesire. all of them are like patent medicine.

No actual online dating site offering a compatibility matching method has a credible peer reviewed Scientifc Paper by Academics (public scrutiny of findings) from different Universities showing its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships with low divorce rates than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group.

The writer and journalist Lori Gottlieb (March 2006) noted about the growing number of Internet dating sites that are using the science of attraction to match singles: "their efforts mark the early days of a social experiment of unprecedented proportions, involving millions of couples and possibly extending over the course of generations"

The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade.
Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.
Major online dating sites can not ignore them any more, or they will die instead.
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users.
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (FORGET Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences)

III) The strict personality similarity axis. Latest Research in Theories of Romantic Relationships Development shows: compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*personality measured with a normative test.
*similarity: there are different ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.
Also Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform FAR better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users and they need to calculate personality similarity between them.

"Match, OkCupid, eHarmony and most other sites aren't very effective at finding dates. And Match is fine with that. They are working of global scalable infrastructure upgrades and acquiring competitors. They are in the Online Dating Industry for the money, matching systems aren't a top priority since they can churn through thousands of people at USD20/month and the singles keep coming back again and again."

The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations, but the innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.

It is Spring now in South America, and some birdies had come to my window and told me:
The new eHarmony's CEO had ordered eHarmony's Team to develop a new high precision compatibility matching algorithm by strict personality similarity using the NORMATIVE 16PF5 or similar test and launch it in a new site before February 2012. Match's Team is testing a new compatibility matching algorithm using the 16PF5 test, to replace Chemistry, a 6+ years old and obsolete site based on an IPSATIVE personality model, which also has a low success rate and high level of false positives.

I had challenged eHarmony and Match to offer Compatibility Distribution Curves for each and every dater, i.e. how compatible you are with the rest of the daters.

BrainDesire

2011-11-12T23:22:00.001-03:00

"BrainDesire is the only online test that gives a scientific clue about someone’s potential to become THE one."
"BrainDesire is a scientific tool that measures how intensely a particular person left a mark on your brain, and to what extent that person activates your brain areas involving desire and love, if at all. This gives a clue about the potential of a relationship. BrainDesire stems from scientific research in brain science. ....... .... protected by patents internationally."
"The fundamental mechanisms of BrainDesire have been benchmarked with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalograms (EEG). " [They had researched using fMRI studies to critically identify the cortical networks associated with passionate love, and to compare and contrast it with other types of love (such as maternal love and unconditional love for persons with intellectual disabilities).]

Some research cited:
Neuroimaging of love: fMRI meta-analysis evidence toward new perspectives in sexual medicine.
Is Long-Term Love More Than A Rare Phenomenon? If So, What Are Its Correlates?

Interesting to compare with Chemistry (by Dr. Helen Fisher)
A 56-item temperament measure, the Fisher-Rich-Island Neurochemical Questionnaire (FRI-NQ) was used to assess compatibility between participants.

Please remember personality = temperament + character
Latest Research in Theories of Romantic Relationships Development shows: compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity** between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*Although no actual fresh paper uses the 16PF normative personality test (they mostly use different versions of the normative Big5 personality test instead) and linear or logistic multivariate regression equations to calculate similarity, they clearly show a connection between personality similarity and marital happiness / dyadic success (stability and satisfaction) for some persons.
**Similarity is a word that has different meanings for different persons or companies, it exactly depends on how mathematically is defined.

Also there is a similarity trilogy between genetic, mate choice and personality based recommender systems.

The only way to break "the online dating sound barrier" and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is:
- using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5. The ensemble of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 7.0 * 10E9 (estimated OCT 2011)
- expressing compatibility with eight decimals, like The pattern 6.7.6.8.9.6.7.7.8.7.2.5.8.7.3.4 is 92.55033557% +/- 0.00000001% similar to the pattern 7.7.6.8.8.7.6.5.8.7.4.5.7.7.3.4
Using a quantized pattern comparison method (part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation) to calculate similarity between prospective mates.

All other proposals are .............. NOISE

2 tips for matching algorithms

2011-11-10T22:30:00.000-03:00

1) Matching algorithms do not need to be complex or sophisticated, they need to be effective.
2) When you evaluate a matching algorithm for the Online Dating Industry, you FIRST need to estimate its resources consumption, the power calculation it requires.

LIFEPROJECT METHOD is quite simple, fully written in less than 10 A4 pages.
But it is so powerful!

ALGORITHMS & POWER CALCULATION

2011-11-09T21:56:00.000-03:00

The new eHarmony's CEO had ordered eHarmony's Team to develop a new high precision compatibility matching algorithm by strict personality similarity using the NORMATIVE 16PF5 or similar test and launch it in a new site before February 2012. They plan to imitate what I had invented over 10 years ago.

Several online dating sites are NOW (year 2011) offering compatibility matching engines based on the Big5 to assess personality of members, like the fremium PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor and eHarmony's algorithm is 11+ years old and obsolete. [success rate of less than 10%, high rate of false positives that irritates clients]

eHarmony's biggest competitor (eDarling in some countries) is IAC Personals: Match; who also owns Chemistry, OkCupid, SinglesNet, People Media's Communities and had recently completed the acquisition of Meetic Group which includes Meetic, Meetic Affinity and ParPerfeito in Brazil.

Match's Team is testing a new compatibility matching algorithm using the 16PF5 test, to replace Chemistry, a 6+ years old and obsolete site based on an IPSATIVE personality model, which also has a low success rate and high level of false positives.

When you evaluate a matching algorithm for the Online Dating Industry, you FIRST need to estimate its resources consumption, the power calculation it requires.

Both eHarmony and Match will need to acquire a Cray, Fujitsu or Hitachi supercomputer OR over a 1,000 high speed servers arrangement due to the high volume of floating point operations you need to calculate similarity between quantized patterns using the 16PF5 test. (In this case compatibility is equal to similarity)

In the "first run" you not only need to calculate similarity between each and every women compared to men, but also men to men similarity to avoid women seeing men as all the same, and women to women similarity to avoid men seeing women as all the same.

How to estimate power calculation:
For N clients, needs [N * (N-1)] / 2 nearly equal to (N * N) /2 comparisons.
For a 100,000 daters database; 50,000 men and 50,000 women you need 5,000,000,000 of matricial comparisons.
For 1,000,000 clients needs over 500,000,000,000 of matricial comparisons.

For a 1,000,000 persons Database.
Number of Comparisons == (1,000,000)raisedto2 / 2 == 500,000,000,000 each one to calculate similarity between persons.
If the supercomputer (or high speed server arrangement) calculates similarity between quantized patterns as fast as 1,000,000 per second, it will require 500,000 seconds, nearly 139 hours!!! and that is only for the "first run"

I had challenged eHarmony and Match to offer Compatibility Distribution Curves for each and every dater, i.e. how compatible you are with the rest of the daters.

Breaking "the online dating sound barrier" is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!

The only way to achieve that is:
- using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5. The ensemble of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 7.0 * 10E9 (estimated OCT 2011)
- expressing compatibility with eight decimals, like The pattern 6.7.6.8.9.6.7.7.8.7.2.5.8.7.3.4 is 92.55033557% +/- 0.00000001% similar to the pattern 7.7.6.8.8.7.6.5.8.7.4.5.7.7.3.4
Using a quantized pattern comparison method (part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation) to calculate similarity between prospective mates.

That is the only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

All other proposals are .............. NOISE

You can also read the article: Teller Ulam design and LIFEPROJECT METHOD.

9 papers about interpersonal relations with emphasis on couples

2011-11-06T02:36:00.000-03:00

Acta de Investigación Psicológica, agosto 2011, Vol. 1, N°2, es una publicación cuatrimestral editada por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Psychological Research Records, August 2011
special issue on interpersonal relations with emphasis on couples

Preface

The aim of this special issue of the Psychological Research Minutes focusing on Personal Relationships is to showcase the research conducted by the leading figures of Mexico and the world in the field of close relationships; and with it, stimulate interest and new research trails in this fascinating and increasingly applied area of the social and behavioral sciences. Throughout the issue, the antecedents, processes and consequences of variables involved in the positive and negative outcomes of close encounters is masterfully conceptualized, analyzed and researched in each article.

Dr. Susan Sprecher at page 187 writes about:
"Relationship Compatibility, Compatible Matches, and Compatibility Matching"
Compatibilidad de la Relación, Parejas Afines y Compatibilidad del Emparejamiento
Abstract
Many leading Internet dating sites claim to be able to find compatible matches for singles, and that they use principles from Relationship Science to generate their matching algorithms. In this article, I first discuss how "relationship compatibility" has been studied in Relationship Science. It is generally not directly studied, but inferred from related constructs, including satisfaction, commitment, and endurance of the relationship. Second, I discuss three principles that are referred to in Relationship Science as defining a pair being a "compatible match". These principles are similarity, complementarity, and matching (on same level of socially desirable characteristics, regardless of whether they are the same or different between partners). In the final section, I discuss what aspects of science are being used at the Internet dating sites to create compatible matches.
.......
personal characteristics that are found to be associated with relationship satisfaction and the other traveling companions of relationship compatibility include agreeableness, emotional stability, extraversion, high self-esteem, and secure attachment style. Conversely, the personality characteristics, neuroticism and insecure attachment style, have been linked to lower quality relationships.
..........
considerable research indicates that similarity contributes to compatibility. In fact, some writers have equated similarity with compatibility.
..........
The similarity effect, referring to similarity leading to attraction and satisfaction, has been described as one of the most well-established findings in the study of interpersonal attraction.
Dijkstra and Barelds (2008) had their participants complete measures of the Big Five Personality characteristics (openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism) and then indicate how much they would desire the same personal characteristics in a potential mate. Strong correlations were found between the individuals' own personality characteristics and the degree to which they desired the personality characteristics in a mate.

Do you remember my post Three words in compatibility matching methods?
Three words with different meanings for different persons or companies!
Compatibility, Personality, Similarity
Latest Research in Theories of Romantic Relationships Development shows: compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity** between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*Although no actual fresh paper uses the 16PF normative personality test (they mostly use different versions of the normative Big5 personality test instead) and linear or logistic multivariate regression equations to calculate similarity, they clearly show a connection between personality similarity and marital happiness / dyadic success (stability and satisfaction) for some persons.
**Similarity is a word that has different meanings for different persons or companies, it exactly depends on how mathematically is defined.

Please read also: victims of human experimentation ?

other authors of the special issue:
Mirta Margarita Flores Galaz at page 216
"Conflict and Communication: their Impact on Marital Satisfaction"

Judith A. Feeney at page 233
"Adult Attachment and Conflict Behavior: Delineating the Links"

Rozzana Sánchez Aragón at page 254
"Emotional Structure of Romantic Passion Intensity"

Miriam Sang-Ah Park, Robin Goodwin, Szabolcs Gergó Harsányi & Jung-Ae Kim at page 274
"Macro-Level Factors & their Influence on Family Perceptions in Two Cultures"

Sofía Rivera Aragón, Rolando Díaz Loving, Gerardo Benjamín Tonatiuh Villanueva Orozco & Nancy Montero Santamaria at page 298
"Conflict as a Precouser of Infidelity"

Clyde Hendrick, Susan S. Hendrick & Tammy L. Zacchilli at page 316
"Respect and Love in Romantic Relationships"

Rolando Diaz Loving at page 330
"Current Mesoamerican Couples: Cultural Heritage; Families in Transition; Sustainable Relationships"

Marianne Dainton at page 352
"Linking Theoretical Explanations for the Use of Marital Maintenance: Equity, Uncertainty, Attachment, and Reciprocity"

UPDATE dating Klout and dating Kayak

2011-11-05T22:47:00.000-03:00

In a previous post I had written about dating Klout and dating Kayak

dating Klout seems to be a ranking feature, like rating photos in HotorNot.

dating Kayak seems to be an Online Dating Aggregator.

Those features are only stupidities available in other sites, they are not going to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Dating site WooMe acquired by Zoosk

2011-11-04T16:41:00.000-03:00

WooMe acquired by Zoosk: my bet, 2 FAILED social dating proposals.

Woome never took off.
Alexa shows Zoosk had suffered a sudden drop in traffic rank. I do not think it is due a big mobile adoption rate. Perhaps their daters are becoming tired of Zoosk. Or are they running out of money?

Zoosk had received a ton of money from venture funds, but Zoosk can not revolutionize the Online Dating Industry. They only made some noise during 2010.

Moreover ZOOSK is not a Scientific Matchmaking Service/System, as it promotes itself.
That method is only a HOAX!

Zoosk will be a case of study for several venture funds.

dating Klout and dating Kayak

2011-11-04T00:15:00.000-03:00

In previous posts I had written about
stealth online social dating company
and
new online dating startup

That new dating social network is going to be launched during next December, and it claims "We are a dating social network. We integrate your social graph and real-time social media streams with dating Klout and dating Kayak to create a new dating experience."

"dating Klout" and "dating Kayak" seem to be 2 proprietary features (most probably 2 stupidities with curious names)

I agree that "The online dating industry has experienced little innovation since 2003" but as that stealth online social dating company is founded by a former VP Match who is not an entrepreneur; he is only a "marketinero", a smoke seller; he can not innovate in nothing. It is not going to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
If you are an investor, I do not recommend you to invest in that new company.

Remember:
Social networking/applications could merge with online dating for fun, for flirting, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification.
Social networking and online dating for serious daters are like water and oil, they will never mix.

Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem. But there is only one way. WorldWide, there are over 5,000 online dating sites but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar test) to assess personality of its members.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Read also:
5 social dating FAILED PROPOSALS
Includes SmartDate, Ge.la.to (then rebranded to Twnty) , Triangulate, Engage (then rebranded to Ignither group dating) and Thread.
FAILED PROPOSAL: Semantic web and Online Dating
FAILED PROPOSAL: Cupids X Factors
and
What comes after Social Networking?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test. The market remain enormous!!!

IAC Q3 2011 / Personals

2011-11-03T19:56:00.001-03:00

The IAC had bought the Meetic Group some weeks ago.
Meetic Q3 2011 Results: The Group has a total of 797,093 subscribers.
(844,435 at 30th June 2011 and 872,047 subscribers at 31st March 2011).

IAC Q3 2011 Results for Personals: Match + Meetic & Meetic Affinity + Chemistry + OKCupid + SinglesNet + People Media's communities + YahooPersonals == 2,748,000 subscribers.

"Match Core" consists of Match in the United States, Chemistry and People Media's communities.
"Match Developing" consists of OkCupid, Singlesnet, mobile-only products and non-Meetic international operations.
"Meetic" consists of the publicly traded personals company Meetic S.A., which operates principally in Europe.
Compare to Q2 2011 for Personals

It is clear to Match, if they want to grow, they will need to increase their non-Meetic international operations. (The unexploited Latin American Market remains enormous: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and many countries in Central America)

See
Match Latam revenue (estimated) USD 29 million per year

Online Dating Trends 2012

2011-11-02T00:52:00.004-03:00

The spring had blossom here in South America. Birds are singing, the flowers open their petals exhaling sweet fragrance.

A little birdie had come to my window and said:
"Fernando, the industry is moving to mobile, location-based matching, improved algorithms, behavioural matching, friends-matching-friends, more robust profiles and many other innovations."
I replied:
Mobile is evolving: Tablets (iPads) with wi fi or broadbands modems, netbooks with wi fi or broadbands modems, not only smartphones.
Location based, friends-matching-friends are only for fun, not serious dating.
Behavioural matching: complete waste of time, because behavioural matching can not outperform personality matching methods.

ONLY ONE ROAD TO ACHIEVE INNOVATIONS The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations, but the innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment. Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (FORGET Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences)
III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.

That little birdie also said: "The people at Match are doing lots of interesting things, same at eHarmony. They will have something similar in results to your mythical system in place soon enough."
I replied: Ha, ha, ha. Great. During 2012 I will challenge them to offer Compatibility Distribution Curves for each and every dater, i.e. how compatible you are with the rest of the daters.
(I was alerted in advance about Match planning to offer the 16PF5 test, other birdie had told me last May)

The birdie: "People still need to go on a lot of dates, it is a numbers game after all. Matching improvements are great for a first pass, but people still need to get out there and meet each other. NO system can replace that, yours just cuts down on initial blatant false positives. That's great, but there are multiple ways to achieve that objective."
I agree. Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem. But there is only one way.

The birdie: "Why not broaden your writing to be more meta, addressing different matching systems, behavioural systems, video interviews with the key players, a competitive matrix that is easy to comprehend. Perhaps credit card spending habits will prove to be 1,000X more effective at matching people. Hell they are starting to do that today. I'll query a petabyte dataset about people's buying habits to find my mate a lot faster than taking a personality test. "
I replied: That is not possible, it seems you never understood the DISTORTION problem.

The birdie: "You are promoting a licensed test, and everyone else is trying to piece together lots of different signifiers and systems that can be used to refine the matching system. "
I replied: WorldWide, there are over 5,000 online dating sites but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar test) to assess personality of its members.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

The birdie: "You should refocus your energy on mining Facebook data to create composite grouping of people instead of on the fly real-time generated results. Dating sites suck at pulling in Facebook data, which is 100x more useful than most of the testing questions. And the the don't do anything with the data."
I replied: No, personality profiling is the right way to go for serious dating. Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform FAR better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users.

The birdie: "I will rock this discussion all night. Go big or go home is my mantra with you."
I replied: Ha, ha, ha, I can resist until 2020 saying the same since 2001. Last August, LIFEPROJECT METHOD was a 10+ years old project. Over 10 years trying to launch my project. Match, eHarmony, PerfectMatch and others I had contacted during 2002, 2003, rejected it.

The birdie: "And still, years later, there is no proof that your system will work. Which is why you have a credibility problem."
I replied: All the new & fresh research shows STRICT personality similarity as the right road to go.

The birdie: "Start a small site, gather your results, write a blog and a whitepaper and a book and boom you have done your part to get everyone's attention."
I replied: It seems you do not understand I have no money to do that, I need to get funded. The license of the 16PF5 is over USD 2 million for 100,000 test takers (daters). A similar proprietary test, but assessing the same 16 variables as the 16PF5, will cost USD 100,000 per language and norm.

The birdie: "Look at Dr. Helen Fisher. That's exactly what she did with Chemistry. She is a credible academic with the data to back her findings up. She doesn't promote various flavors of technology, she talks about results and what she's learned along the way and this data is infused in the Chemistry matching system."
I replied: She was backed by the people of Match, but she failed with her theory.

The birdie: "Chemistry could be a USD 20Million/year company, which I would consider successful; but bottom line, Match, OkCupid, eHarmony and most other sites aren't very effective at finding dates. And Match is fine with that. They are working of global scalable infrastructure upgrades and acquiring competitors. They are in the Online Dating Industry for the money, matching systems aren't a top priority since they can churn through thousands of people at USD20/month and the singles keep coming back again and again."
I replied: Yes, the biggest scammers are not from Ghana or Nigeria. They are Match, eHarmony, Chemistry, PerfectMatch and others, very comfortable attracting, converting and retaining subscribers with automatic renewal of their subscriptions and other credit-card billing trickery, than offering a good compatibility matching method. They really do not want to innovate.
There are over 100 million singles in USA and Canada and over 100 million singles in Europe. WorldWide there are more than 5,000 online dating sites but they have less than 5 million persons as paid members. The Online Dating Market remains enormous!
If they can not or not want to innovate any more, they should die peacefully and leave room for new opportunities.

THE 2012 WILL BE THE STORM OF LAWYERS SUING ONLINE DATING SITES FOR FRAUD.

Lawyers: Since some years ago I had been secretly assisting lawyers who sue online dating sites for fake/inactive profiles, sending them screenshots and other valuable information. I will continue and incentivate them during 2012.
Consumers' Associations: Since some years ago I had been secretly denouncing several online dating sites for fraud at several Consumers' Associations worlwide. I will continue.
Journalists: I continually contact the writers / journalists who write articles in several newspapers/magazines sending them my point of view, saying why the entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with a low effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms (less than 10%).

CHALLENGE TO THE PEOPLE OF eHarmony and Match

2011-11-01T00:13:00.000-03:00

OPEN CHALLENGE TO THE PEOPLE OF eHarmony and Match

A little birdie told me eHarmony plans to change its compatibility matching algorithm due to low success rate and high level of false positives.

Another little birdie told me the people at Match is testing a new compatibility matching algorithm to replace Chemistry, which also has a low success rate and high level of false positives.

Both eHarmony (eDarling in some countries) and Match/Chemistry are quite old and obsolete sites. They can not be improved. They need to innovate. But the innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment. Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.

I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"

II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (FORGET Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences like Daily 5 at Match or Daily 6 at Meetic)

III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment. All the new & fresh research shows personality similarity as the right road to go.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 online dating sites but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar test) to assess personality of its members.

Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

I challenge you to offer something similar to LIFEPROJECT METHOD.

I also challenge you to offer CompatibilityDistribution Curves for each and every dater, i.e. how compatible you are with the rest of the daters.

If you can not innovate any more, please die peacefully and leave room for new opportunities.

Please DO remember I am the person who had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating soundbarrier" problem.

Dopasowani

2011-10-31T00:46:00.000-03:00

I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

Now I review Dopasowani. It uses the Enneagram of Personality model (another ipsative test, a HOAX)
You can see these screenshots:

Teller Ulam design and LIFEPROJECT METHOD.

2011-10-27T22:37:00.000-03:00

The Tunguska event was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 0:14 UT on June 30 1908. The explosion is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 mi) above the Earth's surface.
The energy of the blast was nearly 15 megatons of TNT roughly equal to the United States' Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb tested on March 1, 1954; about 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan (codenamed Little Boy).

The idea of a thermonuclear fusion bomb ignited by a smaller fission bomb was first proposed by Enrico Fermi to his colleague Edward Teller in 1941 at the start of what would become the Manhattan Project.
Other prominent scientists openly recommended building nuclear bombs more powerful than the standard pure-fission model. Their assumption was that critical mass considerations would limit the potential size of fission explosions, but that a fusion explosion could be as large as its supply of fuel, which has no critical mass limit.
In January 1951, Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam invented radiation-powered ablation-drive implosion.
The Teller–Ulam design is the nuclear weapon design concept used in most of the world's multi-megaton-range thermonuclear weapons; a 1,000 times more powerful than Hiroshima's Little Boy.
Its essential features, officially remained secret for nearly three decades.

LIFEPROJECT METHOD is like the "Teller Ulam design" for the Online Dating Industry.
In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

Breaking "the online dating sound barrier" is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!

The only way to achieve that is:
- using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5. The ensemble of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 7.0 * 10E9 (estimated OCT 2011)
- expressing compatibility with eight decimals, like The pattern 6.7.6.8.9.6.7.7.8.7.2.5.8.7.3.4 is 92.55033557% +/- 0.00000001% similar to the pattern 7.7.6.8.8.7.6.5.8.7.4.5.7.7.3.4
Using a quantized pattern comparison method (part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation) to calculate similarity between prospective mates.

That is the only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

All other proposals are .............. NOISE