Quality Norms

Shaadi, the only one with ISO 9001:2008 Quality Norms for Customer Care and Support Functions




Why others like eHarmony - Match / Chemistry cannot certify?

Thanks to the readers of this blog.

Thanks to the readers of this blog.

Seasonality and Personality

Seasonality and Personality

If you had read

"Babies' biological clocks dramatically affected by birth light cycle" where it says

"Seasonality and Personality

The new study raises an intriguing but highly speculative possibility: Seasonal variations in the day/night cycle that individuals experience as their brains are developing may affect their personality."


I had read the brief communication "Perinatal photoperiod imprints the circadian clock" and the word "personality" is not mentioned there.



I had also contacted Dr. McMahon to ask him if he could quantify / estimate the % of the contribution of "Seasonality" to personality development in humans.

He had answered: "In answer to your inquiry - It is not possible to quantify any possible effect in humans. This is an idea that still must be tested."

Online Dating Industry 2011, predictions

Main prediction for the Online Dating Industry 2011: The Online Dating Fatigue Phenomenon will get even worse during 2011.


PlentyOfFish had reached operating ceiling, now decaying. eVow can not take off

eHarmony USA losing traffic. You will see daters leaving in droves from old paid sites like Match, Chemistry, True, eHarmony, PerfectMatch, Be2, Parship, Meetic, etc.

MySpace is going to be the biggest dating application for fun, in ... Facebook!!!
MySpace NOW is a deliberately social dating site; for fun, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification but nor for serious dating with commitment.
It is clearly a threat to all dating applications at Facebook and PlentyOfFish / OKCupid.



Mr. Greg Blatt named CEO of IAC? He is only a lawyer. He is not going to innovate in nothing.
My bet: He will continue to acquire rotten tech companies in order to show some kind of success, show achievements, show milestones during his tenure.

The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries has:
* No Legislation.
* No Quality Norms.
* Low reliable background checks.

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%),

There is a range convergence phenomenon between the 3 mains tools online dating sites offer now: Searching by your own, Recommendation Engines and Compatibility Matching Methods based on proprietary models or the Big5. Any member receives on average 3 to 4 prospective mates as selected / recommended / compatible for dating purposes per 1,000 members screened in the database.
They all 3 are performing the same for serious daters, with a high percentage of false positives, like gun machines firing flowers.

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.

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 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

MySpace a social dating site

MySpace NOW is a deliberately social dating site; for fun, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification but nor for serious dating with commitment.
It is clearly a threat to all dating applications at Facebook and PlentyOfFish / OKCupid.

Match Japan / brief review

eHarmony plans to enter the Japanese market, Match has its Japanese version since 2002.
Match Japan is like Match Venus or Match Mars or Match in the Moon.
Very few Japanese are using Match (it also includes Chemistry as well, optative)
You can check traffic and rank from Alexa, it is not an independent domain name, it is the subdomain
www.JP.match.com

Match's Worldwide Traffic Rank = Japan 1,810, it means does not exist.
Where Visitors Go on Match = 2.5% of Site Traffic go to www.JP.match.com


Remember, Dec 27, 2006 interview at Online Personals Watch, the former CEO of Match had said:
".. a matchmaker for Match Platinum.... ..We'll also be piloting this in several international markets as well, specifically Japan and the UK. " but Match can never exploit the Japanese Market.

Match Japan is like a flag in the Moon.

Yahoo Babel Fish translates far better than Google Translate.
Check both translations from Japanese to English.



The homepage shows you a link to the last event, the Feb 9th 2010 Valentine Day!!!



The profiles are quite similar to the USA site, but the Japanese can add up to 7 certificates to increase reliability of their profiles.
like
Human proof: a copy of driver's license, health insurance, passports.
Address proof: inhabitant vote, invoices from different services.
Working proof: Employee proof
Earnings proof: The withholding certificate which can prove the earnings of the preceding year, the final return, either one of the certificates for paid taxes.
Graduation proof: Diploma or graduation certificate.
Celibacy proof: The celibacy certificate from certificate for marriage information service / marriage consultation trader.
Credit card proof: When charge service of match is purchased (purchase with credit card certification), credit card proof becomes effective.



My computer does not have the Japanese fonts installed, anyway I do not understand Japanese.

eHarmony Japan?

eHarmony Japan?

I used Google Translate to know it says the site will be launched soon.

The Big 5 is good for orientative purposes but not good enough for predictive purposes, it will "see" all Japanese women/men as all the same.

You can read:
"PATTERNS AND UNIVERSALS OF ADULT ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT ACROSS 62 CULTURAL REGIONS Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs?"
JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 35 No. 4, July 2004 367-402

"Analyses of specific attachment styles revealed that secure romantic attachment was normative in 79% of cultures and that preoccupied romantic attachment was particularly prevalent in East Asian cultures."