BOOK Married at First Swipe

 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55058893-married-at-first-swipe

BOOK: The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/10/book-dating-divide-race-and-desire-in.html

In "The All-Or-Nothing Marriage", Eli Finkel explores matrimony in a modern time
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/09/in-all-or-nothing-marriage-eli-finkel.html

 

The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.

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 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 normative model or the HEXACO normative model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the normative 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.    

BOOK: The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance Paperback

February 9, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/Dating-Divide-Desire-Online-Romance/dp/0520293452
https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/the-dating-divide-race-and-desire-in-the-era-of-online-romance/celeste-vaughan-curington/jennifer-hickes-lundquist/hardback/9780520293441.html

PAPER: The Homophily Principle in Social Network Analysis
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/08/paper-homophily-principle-in-social.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 Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.

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 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 normative model or the HEXACO normative model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the normative 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.   

"Why online dating is so extremely difficult in the Tinder era" by Judith Duportail

Por qué ligar es tan extremadamente difícil en la era de Tinder
Charlamos con la periodista Judith Duportail a raíz de su ensayo El algoritmo del amor, en el que analiza cómo Tinder influye sobre nosotros, sobre nuestro comportamiento, nuestra autoestima y nuestra forma de entender las relaciones en el siglo XXI.
https://smoda.elpais.com/feminismo/ligar-dificil-era-tinder/

Is the Honeymoon Over for Dating Apps?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/bi-reportarticle-dating-apps-like.html Analysts say there are more users switching between apps than new users entering the dating-app market. 
Analysts at ProPrivacy say the dating apps collect everything from chat content to financial data on their users — and then they share it.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/analysts-at-proprivacy-say-dating-apps.html
The (silly?) GDI Los Angeles Dating Conference 2019
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/today-begins-silly-gdi-los-angeles.html

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

The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles. 

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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html
 

In "The All-Or-Nothing Marriage", Eli Finkel explores matrimony in a modern time

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/in-his-new-book-eli-finkel-sheds-light-on-how-to-keep-up-with-the-marriage-equation/article36411232/

Compare to book:
"Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating",
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/no-innovations-since-years.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/book-million-first-dates-solving-puzzle.html

and
There's no evidence that (actual) matching algorithms work, Dr. Finkel says.  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/theres-no-evidence-that-actual-matching.html
article about "The next big thing in online dating"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/07/article-about-next-big-thing-in-online.html


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

NEW BOOK: Persönlichkeit – Auf der Suche nach unserer Individualität

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-48895-9

"BIG SIX statt BIG FIVE? Das Hexaco-Modell der Persönlichkeit"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/big-six-statt-big-five-das-hexaco.html
PAPER: A sixth personality domain that is independent of the Big Five domains:
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/paper-sixth-personality-domain-that-is.html
The normative BIG5 model (a.k.a. Big Five, FFI, FFM, Five Factor Model, OCEAN model) used at many online dating sites with questionnaires to measure personality of daters had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess personality of persons. Now it was replaced by HEXACO test, a.k.a Big Six test.
The BIG5 normative personality test is the biggest mistake Psychologists made since several years ago.
The BIG5 is also known as the Five Factor Model theory of personality traits, a psychological model based on research by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae.
 
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the BIG 5 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. 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. Also it takes into account women under hormonal treatment because several studies showed 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". 
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old (the group of persons who could be most interested in serious online dating) They have only minor changes in personality (less than 1 interval in a normative test) and the 16PF5 test will not "see" them because 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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/06/stability-and-change-of-personality.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/09/personality-traits-are-highly-stable.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/paper-personality-resilience-following.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/examining-relationship-between-changes.html

Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/04/personality-traits-are-highly-stable-in.html

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY

But many online dating sites like eHarmony and its copycats like eDarling / EliteSingles, TeAmoRU, MiMediaManzana, eSynchrony and other are HOAXES.  
Another eHarmony style copycat: eSynchrony  http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/another-eharmony-style-copycat_18.html Another eHarmony style copycat: MiMediaManzana (from Peru)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/another-eharmony-style-copycat.html
Another eHarmony style copycat: TeAmoRU (from Russia)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/another-eharmony-style-copycat-teamoru.html
eDarling/EliteSingles are only copycats of eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/edarling-german-version-homepage.html 
eHarmony Spanish version / ready / 3 months free
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/eharmony-spanish-version-ready-3-months.html    
eHarmony, is a 15+++++ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.  eHarmony is using the Big Five (Big5) normative test that was revealed as incomplete, incorrect and obsolete personality test. It was replaced by the Big Six a.k.a HEXACO test.
 
Also eHarmony has no Scientific proof its algorithm is better than searching by your own! http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/eharmony-uk-continues-brains-behind.html

BOOK: Recommender Systems, The Textbook

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-29659-3

Table of contents (13 chapters)

• An Introduction to Recommender Systems
• Neighborhood-Based Collaborative Filtering
• Model-Based Collaborative Filtering
• Content-Based Recommender Systems
• Knowledge-Based Recommender Systems
• Ensemble-Based and Hybrid Recommender Systems
• Evaluating Recommender Systems
• Context-Sensitive Recommender Systems
• Time- and Location-Sensitive Recommender Systems
• Structural Recommendations in Networks
• Social and Trust-Centric Recommender Systems
• Attack-Resistant Recommender Systems
• Advanced Topics in Recommender Systems 

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)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/paper-tensor-methods-and-recommender.html
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.  LIFEPROJECT METHOD

All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.