Matchmakers Emerge as an Antidote to the Agony of Online Dating ???

https://www.wsj.com/articles/matchmakers-emerge-as-an-antidote-to-the-agony-of-online-dating-11552059390

Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete. The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/like-computers-killed-typewriters.html

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

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 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 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.


“Top 45 Top Scientific Papers For The Online Dating Industry”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/top-45-scientific-papers-for-online.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatingscience/2012/02/top-45-top-scientific-papers-for-the-online-dating-industry.html
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 
 
WorldWide, there are over 5,000 (five thousand) online dating sites:

- but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) 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!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

- but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its 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 for the majority (over 90%) of its members. 

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

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

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 

about article Does Facebook know enough about us to play cupid?

https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/06/23/does-facebook-know-enough-about-us-to-play-cupid/

If The Future Of Dating "Hinge" On Facebook
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/if-future-of-dating-hinge-on-facebook.html

"Facebook gets into dating, but there’s little scientific evidence online personality matching works"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/05/facebook-gets-into-dating-but-theres.html
 
“Top 45 Top Scientific Papers For The Online Dating Industry”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/top-45-scientific-papers-for-online.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatingscience/2012/02/top-45-top-scientific-papers-for-the-online-dating-industry.html

Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views". 

Which is the RIGHT 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.
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 16PF5 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 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.

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

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, and not meet other people with similar interests or political views.
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


 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

about article: Creative review: How hot are ads for online dating? (in Australia)

http://www.adnews.com.au/news/creative-review-how-hot-are-ads-for-online-dating

EliteSingles is copycat of eHarmony and of course, biggest enemy.
Bumble is backed by Badoo in order to fight back and destroy Tinder.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/kaspersky-october-2017-research.html

"how some dating apps in Brazil siphon personal information without the users’ knowledge, in some cases for resale."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/how-some-dating-apps-in-brazil-siphon.html

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 (five thousand) online dating sites
- but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) 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!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

- but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its 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 for the majority (over 90%) of its members.  

 
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"
    
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

about article: "Relationship quotient: a science of love"

We often underestimate the need to match relationship quotients among couples because they usually aren’t as apparent as body mass indices or bullet points on a resume
http://www.livemint.com/Sundayapp/RR7ZyNk2aJspXs0x1EzYIO/Relationship-quotient-a-science-of-love.html

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 (five thousand) online dating sites
- but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) 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!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

- but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its 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 for the majority (over 90%) of its members.  

 
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"
    
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 

Contradictory information from eHarmony and PROOF of FRAUD
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/contradictory-information-from-eharmony.html
Proof eHarmony is intoxicated with "Big Data Analysis"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/proof-eharmony-is-intoxicated-with-big.html

Has Brexit affected the dating scene? FT article

https://www.ft.com/content/11916a18-4ac5-11e7-a3f4-c742b9791d43
"Mark Brooks, a US-based consultant to the dating industry, says politics is one of the most important criteria used on dating site profiles and in the algorithms such services use. "

He is totally wrong!

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.
and not meet other people with similar interests or political views.

funny article: Brexit won't harm EliteSingles as "people always need love"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/funny-article-brexit-wont-harm.html

featured article: Online dating study shows too many choices can lead to dissatisfaction
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/featured-article-online-dating-study.html

UK based, Online dating company Venntro eyes growth after restructure ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/online-dating-company-venntro-eyes.html


In the paper "Perceptions of Ideal and Former Partners' Personality and Similarity" Pieternel Dijkstra / Dick P. H. Barelds / University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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

Please see also:
"Only the congruent survive - Personality similarities in couples. Personality and Individual Differences"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/paper-partnership-longevity-and.html
"Partnership longevity and personality congruence in couples"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/04/only-congruent-survive-personality.html
 

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.

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"
 
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 

 

article: What are online dating sites doing to keep us safe? via BBC UK

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39139950

After all, online dating fraud is on the rise and it seems easy for people to adopt false identities, stealing photos from other websites and concocting plausible back stories.

Inverse spike after New Year's Eve ? (via Alexa)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/inverse-spike-after-new-years-eve-via.html


From Alexa and SimilarWeb: 2017 worst year ever for the Online Dating Industry???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/from-alexa-and-similarweb-2017-worst.html 
Alexa and SimilarWeb show the rising tide is not happening for Online Dating Industry 2017
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/alexa-and-similarweb-show-rising-tide.html

 
Last May 2016, I suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
Like Match, eHarmony, Zoosk, OkCupid, EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) copycat of eHarmony, Tinder and others.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html
 
Soon you will see online dating scam victims hiring hackers and private investigators to fight back bad online dating sites, destroying them from inside, ala AshleyMadison case! 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/does-online-dating-industry-really-need.html 

TC article: Ona could help you get better at dating with an online dating coach, therapist or matchmaker

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/07/ona-launch/


THAT IS THE SAME TO SAY a computer also uses a typewriter to innovate!
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.

Hinge copycats eH+ (eHarmony Plus)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/hinge-copycats-eh-eharmony-plus.html

Alexa and SimilarWeb show the rising tide is not happening for Online Dating Industry 2017
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/alexa-and-similarweb-show-rising-tide.html 

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.

    
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   

article: The behavioural economics of online dating

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/marketing/82266-behavioural-economics-online-dating/

Finally the perfect dating algorithm? Of course NOT, Big Five test is OBSOLETE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/finally-perfect-dating-algorithm-of.html


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

article: Five Love Experts Predict Dating App Trends For 2017, Because It's Time To Get Offline Faster

https://www.bustle.com/articles/197304-5-love-experts-predict-dating-app-trends-for-2017-because-its-time-to-get-offline-faster
1. Apps Will Find Ways To Be More Selective
2. People Will Get Offline Faster
3. They'll Be Taking It More Old-School
4. There Will Be More Apps Geared Toward Marriage
5. There Will Be More Multi-Generational Success Stories

and
6. Soon you will see online dating scam victims hiring hackers and private investigators to fight back bad online dating sites, destroying them from inside, ala AshleyMadison case!  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/eharmony-scams-its-members-with-big.html


Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html
 
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.)
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.

Without offering the NORMATIVE 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

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"
 

All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.

 

article: How Technology Swiped All The Fun Out Of Dating ?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-boydeinstein/technology-dating_b_12010982.html

also New Dating App Asks: Does Tinder Work In Real Life?
http://www.bandt.com.au/newsletter/does-tinder-work-in-real-life


Please notice Tinder is in big war with Badoo, and can not outperform it.
And Badoo also owns Bumble.
Match Group, parent company of Tinder, has a big debt of USD 1.2 Billion.
The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, LoveScout24 (FriendScout24), OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more!
Match Group does not know how to innovate in the Online Dating Industry.
 
The mission of Tinder was to kill Badoo, but it seems Tinder is killing Match. 

Are Millennials Ready to Pay for Dating Apps? My bet: Not much for social dating, that is vaporware!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/are-millennials-ready-to-pay-for-dating.html
 
Please see also:
article: Why Online Dating Isn’t Cutting It Anymore
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/article-why-online-dating-isnt-cutting.html
article: The Rise of Dating-App Fatigue
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/article-rise-of-dating-app-fatigue.html

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.
 
Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html

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

comScore article: Facebook retains Social Media crown for UK Millennials

http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Data-Mine/Facebook-retains-Social-Media-crown-for-UK-Millennials

Please see also:
Facebook’s Algorithm Changes Leave Dating Apps Frustrated By Reach Restrictions.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/facebooks-algorithm-changes-leave.html
 
REPORT: The State of Broadband 2016: Broadband Catalyzing Sustainable Development  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/report-state-of-broadband-2016.html


Desktop is still alive.
It is not mobile only, it is multi-platform!
Mary Meeker´s Internet Trends 2016 = Mobile Engagement in Deep Crisis ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/mary-meekers-internet-trends-2016.html
 
comScore "The 2016 US Mobile App Report"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/comscore-2016-us-mobile-app-report.html

Article: "The app boom is over. Your phone is full of apps, and you're done downloading new ones."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/article-app-boom-is-over-your-phone-is.html 

article: Half Of US Smartphone Users Don't Download New Apps
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/article-half-of-us-smartphone-users.html 

article: Half Of US Smartphone Users Don't Download New Apps

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/178109/20160917/half-of-us-smartphone-users-dont-download-new-apps-comscore-report.htm

Desktop is still alive.
It is not mobile only, it is multi-platform!
Mary Meeker´s Internet Trends 2016 = Mobile Engagement in Deep Crisis ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/mary-meekers-internet-trends-2016.html


research: About The Use of Dating Apps
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/research-about-use-of-dating-apps.html

Match goes for Generation X, 30 - 50 years old users = "named: traditionals".   
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/match-goes-for-generation-x-30-50-years.html

great article: Millennial generation undergoes “dating apocalypse”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/great-article-millennial-generation.html

comScore "The 2016 US Mobile App Report"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/comscore-2016-us-mobile-app-report.html


Article: "The app boom is over. Your phone is full of apps, and you're done downloading new ones."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/article-app-boom-is-over-your-phone-is.html