Soul2Match, FindYourFaceMate and Digital Physiognomy

Several times I had reviewed Soul2Match, FindYourFaceMate, "FaceReader from Profiler1: Personality Traits analysis based on facial features." and other dating sites with biometric software which analyzes facial features and bone structure, helping to detect levels of soulmate love and friendship like the Digital Physiognomy software. 

Soul2Match, FaceReader and FindYourFaceMate are SCAMS, HOAXES

 The paper "Recognition of Psychological Characteristics from Face" is also useless for the Online Dating Industry.

Do you want to know why?

Here are the answers:

1) 
Profiling by music preferences to assess personality
video preferences to assess personality
color preferences to assess personality
bookmarks preferences to assess personality
handwriting analysis to assess personality
purchases and buying trends from credit cards to assess personality

facial features to assess personality
and other methods like them add distortion to the measurement.

ALL indirect methods, ADD a lot of DISTORTION to the measurement.
The best way to assess personality of daters is using a normative instrument.

2) Read "Generalization in mate choice copying in humans"

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Please remember:

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

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

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!

The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". 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 and perform as placebo!

 

Soul2Match and Find Your FaceMate are SCAMS, HOAXES

Both Soul2Match and Find Your FaceMate are SCAMS, HOAXES.

Use the same pair of photos and you will receive different results in both matching proposals as I proved in this blog.

Although Soul2Match's and Find Your FaceMate'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 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.)

ALL indirect methods, ADD a lot of DISTORTION to the measurement.
The best way to assess personality of daters is using a normative instrument.

Soul2Match new dating site / 2 papers

Soul2Match is mainly based in this research:

Little, A. C., Jones, B. C., Burt, D. M. & Perrett, D. I. 2007. Preferences for symmetry in faces change across the menstrual cycle. Biological Psychology 76: 209–216.

Little, AC, Burt, DM & Perrett, DI 2006. Assortative mating for perceived facial personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences 40(5): 973-984.

Although Soul2Match's personality similarity approach is correct, how Soul2Match assesses personality (indirect method to measure the Big5 traits, ADDS DISTORTION to the measurement) and how Soul2Match calculates 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 suffers 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 want to see a paper showing Soul2Match correlates with the Big5 traits (like the one for the Dewey Color System showing its correlation with the 16PF and the distortion it adds.)

* CLICCK also matches users through a combination of its patent-pending facial recognition software, compatibility test and cutting edge biochemical attraction analysis, but that method is a HOAX, a complete SCAM.
* VisualDNA assesses personality with a graphic quiz, another HOAX, a complete SCAM.
* WriteMatch assesses personality with an ipsative instrument, results are a written report, a HOAX, a SCAM.


ALL indirect methods, ADD a lot of DISTORTION to the measurement.
The best way to assess personality of daters is using a normative instrument.



Compatibility is all about a high level on personality(1) similarity(2) between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
In compatibility matching methods there are 2 steps:
(1) to objectively measure personality traits or other human variables.
* WorldWide, there are over 5,000 online dating sites but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar test like 15FQ+) to assess personality of its members.
Without offering the 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors, the complete inventory as established by Dr. Raymond Cattell during 1949) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
The ensemble (whole set of different valid possibilities) of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 6.7 * 10E9
(2) to calculate compatibility between prospective mates.
* I had invented a new quantitative method to calculate compatibility between prospective mates, based on quantized pattern comparison (part of pattern recognition by correlation) named LIFEPROJECT METHOD.