OPW ARTICLE: People Are Dating All Wrong, According to Data Science

 

https://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2022/07/people-are-dating-all-wrong-according-to-data-science.html

compatibility == STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2021/04/compatibility-strict-personality.html

Researchers sharpen Cupid's aim on dating apps with new algorithm ???
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2022/06/researchers-sharpen-cupids-aim-on.html
 

compatibility == STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY

 

https://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2021/04/mark-brooks-the-big-3-innovation-areas-of-internet-dating.html

In compatibility matching methods there are 2 steps:
1) to objectively measure personality traits or other human variables (with the 16PF6 test).
2) to calculate compatibility between prospective mates.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/funny-ideas-project-0d8-helps-dating.html

Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html

Compatibility IS REALLY No. 1 Ingredient To Satisfying Relationship, Study Says

"The researchers studied 2,500 heterosexual couples who have been married for about 20 years and discovered that shared interests weren’t the No. 1 element to a satisfying relationship despite what many people – and dating apps – believe."

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/07/06/compatibility-isnt-no-1-ingredient-to-satisfying-relationship-study-says/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656618301508


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 like 16PF6.
*similarity: there are different ways / formulas to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.

Three words in compatibility matching methods.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2010/03/three-words-in-compatibility-matching.html
Big summary about matching algorithms
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2011/11/big-summary-about-matching-algorithms.html


Facebook dating Australia soon. (July 2019 Winter in South Hemisphere)
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/facebook-dating-australia-soon-july.html

Great paper "Couple Similarity on Personality, Moral Identity and Spirituality Predict Life Satisfaction of Spouses and Their Offspring"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/great-paper-couple-similarity-on.html

FUNNY: IDEA's Project 0d8 Helps Dating Services Improve
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/funny-ideas-project-0d8-helps-dating.html
Improvement is not innovation!


The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/mistakes-at-behavioral-economics-of.html

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 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:

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. (Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless)

III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

PAPER "Only the congruent survive - Personality similarities in couples. Personality and Individual Differences"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/paper-partnership-longevity-and.html 
PAPER "Partnership longevity and personality congruence in couples"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/04/only-congruent-survive-personality.html
 
At the paper  "Perceptions of Ideal and Former Partners' Personality and Similarity" 
The authors had written
".... mismatches in personality are a frequently mentioned cause for relationship break-up. If former partners indeed have dissimilar personalities, our findings underline how difficult it is for many people to select a mate with a similar personality, or, alternatively, how little value individuals put on finding a similar partner in terms of personality.
The present study's results, as well as the results found in previous studies (e.g., Eastwick & Finkel, 2008), may be used to educate people, especially singles, about what really matters in long-term relationships, for instance, similarity in personality, instead of complementarity."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/05/big-punch-to-behavioural-recommender.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/two-papers-debunking-behavioural.html

Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF6 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (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 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html 

 

People-to-People Reciprocal Recommenders

Chapter of Recommender Systems Handbook pp 545-567
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4899-7637-6_16

Abstract

People-to-people reciprocal recommenders are an emerging class of recommender systems. They differ from traditional items-to-people recommenders as they must satisfy the preferences and needs of the two parties involved in the recommendation. In contrast, traditional items-to-people recommenders are one-sided and must satisfy only the preference of the person for whom the recommendation is generated. We review the characteristics and present an overview of existing reciprocal recommenders. To illustrate the various aspects of these recommenders and how reciprocity can be taken into account in building and evaluating such recommenders, we present a case study in online dating. We describe our reciprocal recommender algorithm that combines content-based and collaborative filtering and uses data from both user profiles and user interactions. We also study the differences between the implicit and explicit user preferences and show that implicit preferences, learned from user interactions, are better predictors of successful interactions. We conclude by outlining some future research directions.

PAPER A Deployed People-to-People Recommender System in Online Dating
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/paper-deployed-people-to-people.html
 
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. They need to calculate personality similarity between users.

In case you had not noticed, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry. 

Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena?
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns. Oh that is exactly ............ guess ............. yes ........ LIFEPROJECT METHOD, ready since 2001!
All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.
 
Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

PAPER "Homogeneity of personal values and personality traits in Facebook social networks" 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/thesis-social-network-based-recommender.html

PAPER Recommender Systems supporting Decision Making through Analysis of User Emotions and Personality 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/paper-homogeneity-of-personal-values.html
ACM RecSys CrowdRec 2015 Workshop  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/acm-recsys-crowdrec-2015-workshop.html

The ineffectiveness of

The ineffectiveness of speed dating and why you should not pay for a dating service

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

ONLY ONE ROAD TO ACHIEVE INNOVATIONS  
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.

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

Yangutu review PART 2 of 2

In a previous post I had said "Yangutu, the science-based online dating site" is a HOAX

It is a HOAX, because it is (only based on) an ipsative personality assessment instrument, not a normative one.


Here you can see screenshots of how test result and soulmates are shown.

Yangutu is an improved copycat of Badoo, but nearly nobody uses it. In more than 14 hours, the upper bar had minor changes as this screenshot shows.


It runs slower than Badoo on my computer and I could not chat with anybody.
Even not with the founder, who seems to be 24 hours online, because at Yangutu there is NO indicator to tell you if a person is Online or Offline as in Badoo that has a green light.

There are some bugs on the site that sends you to an error screen.

MindMetrics Image based Compatibility Tool

MindMetrics Image based Compatibility Tool says:
"What is MindMetrics?
* An image based compatibility tool
* A form of thin slicing
* A novel solution to an age old problem
* A paradigm shift in personality matching
 MindMetrics is a simple straightforward compatibility filter that uses picture sets to help identify like-minded people in a safe and fun environment.
The heart of this new site associates people of like personalities with each other using social science and a thin-slicing algorithm.
Similar to many of the case studies Malcolm Gladwell cites in his #1 National Bestseller BLINK; The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, the website uses Scientifically-Based Predictors that present a paradigm shift in matching technology.
Different than all of the other existing social networking or dating sites, the MindMetrics Science of Simplicity transcends language, race, gender, religion, and politics.
The patent pending thin-slicing algorithm virtually eliminates the flaws found in conventional compatibility testing systems where:
*  People try and answer what they think the right answer is.
*  Self perception is almost never accurate.
*  The meanings of answers vary wildly from one person to another.
MindMetrics is not another questionnaire that converts answers into personality descriptions that guess whether you are truly generous, compassionate, or lovable.
MindMetrics is a revolutionary system that pulls back the curtain and matches the real you with people that can stand being around you.
Give it a Try Today it's completely FREE, and Invite your friends, foes, and colleagues to see if you are truly a match.

Sincerely,
Dr. Jali A'mita"

I used Google to check this Dr. Jali A’mita and nothing appears!!! It seems Jali A’mita is an invented name.

It also seems there are over 430 pairs of photos to choose (picture sets). More pairs of photos you rate, less compatible you are with other members!
Anyway it is only a graphic ipsative instrument, a HOAX.

I would LOVE to see a Scientific Paper showing how choosing photos between pairs of them can associate people of like personalities with each other. Because if choosing photos are the same as choosing songs (shared music preferences), value expression through music is likely to lead to social bonding but not similarity in basic personality traits. 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.

Please do remember:
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.
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.

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.

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.

Major site with 16PF5 similar test.

As expected for the Online Dating Industry, a major online dating site is going to offer a new compatibility matching method soon.
I am not involved in that new proposal, but I know that major online dating site is going to assess the 16 personality traits as de 16PF5 normative test.

[Remember I had been saying:

Actual Online Dating sites are fully intoxicated with different versions of the FFI five factor inventory / Big5 or other proprietary models instead (like Chemistry or PerfectMatch), to measure personality traits, and all of those tests are more simplified versions than the 16PF5 normative personality test.]

In compatibility matching methods there are 2 steps:
1) to objectively measure personality traits or other human variables (with the 16PF5 test or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors, the complete inventory as established by Dr. Raymond Cattell during 1949!!!).
2) to calculate compatibility between prospective mates.

I will be reviewing that new compatibility matching method and posting screenshots and useful insights soon.

I would love to see compatibility distributions curves, i.e:
If you are a man seeking women, to show the shape of the whole compatibility curve, how compatible you are with all the women in the entire database.

another compatibility ..... fraud!

"to find only truly compatible dating partners"
"lot of information about people is already out there, and can be mined to find qualified matches for singles."

What the word "compatible" really means???

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.

The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade.
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.

II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life.  [uncovered by Eastwick & Finkel (2008); Kurzban & Weeden (2007); Todd, Penke, Fasolo, & Lenton (2007)]

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.

eSynchrony, dating site review

eSynchrony, dating site review
(Launched in June 2010, Alexa shows has no traffic at all. It cannot take off)

eSynchrony (Singapore / Malaysia / Hong Kong) made easy with online dating personality test for compatibility matching.

Brain: Jane A. Sanders ???

eSynchrony looks like an advanced copy of eHarmony

eSynchrony is a personality-based matchmaking platform that seeks to integrate online and offline dating.
Ms Lim added: " will be able to see that this person is actually 81 per cent compatible with them."

"The key difference to eSynchrony compared to other personality tests platforms out there is that we actually arrange the dates. This is a good compromise to dating between online and offline and encourage more singles to be pro-active to go out there and find love."

So, how does eSynchrony Work?
Register with eSynchrony Dating Service   
Phone check and screening
Match.
Set the date
Just turn-up!
Feedback


The eSynchrony matchmaking algorithm and profiling is based on 15 areas of compatibility such as:  
Profile Attributes  
Life Experiences  
Physical Attributes  
Personality Temperament  
Interests and Passions  
Worldliness  
Relationship Skills  
Values and beliefs  
Masculinity/Feminity  
Relationship readiness  
Cultural Inclinations  
Openness  
Agreeableness  
Money Attitudes  
Admiration

They also ask for your National Registration Identity Card, the identity document in use in Singapore and your mobile phone number.