FT article: When Big Dating leaves you standing

 

https://www.ft.com/content/d30d7d72-b223-4b92-b670-fa3bc4fee2cc

Apps promised to revolutionize dating. (Article by Nancy Jo Sales)
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2021/05/apps-promised-to-revolutionize-dating.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. 

 

"Nancy Jo Sales Wants Women to Know It’s Not You, It’s Dating Apps"

 

https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a35929793/nancy-jo-sales-nothing-personal-book/

Psychiatrist warns 'gamification' of dating apps is harming our chances of finding love
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/psychiatrist-warns-gamification-of.html

A dating app for literal monsters exposes the bias in our swipes ?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/05/a-dating-app-for-literal-monsters.html

article Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2015/08/article-tinder-and-dawn-of-dating.html

Apps promised to revolutionize dating. (Article by Nancy Jo Sales)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2021/05/apps-promised-to-revolutionize-dating.html

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

Apps promised to revolutionize dating. (Article by Nancy Jo Sales)

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/17/apps-tinder-dating-women

Nancy Jo Sales is a writer for Vanity Fair and the author of American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers. Her new book Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno is released on 18 May by Hachette
https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/nancy-jo-sales/nothing-personal/9780316492799/

The journalist who provoked the wrath of Tinder is back
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-journalist-who-provoked-wrath-of.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-jo-sales-responds-to-sean-rad-evening-standard-interview-2015-11

Article by female Journalist: Dirty tricks from Match?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3191461/From-automatically-renewing-subscriptions-secretly-boosting-profiles-dating-sites-use-cynical-tricks-stop-leaving.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/article-by-female-journalist-dirty.html
UK Journalist Melissa Kite, 43, tried online dating after being single for six months.
After no success she decided to cancel her subscription.
When she tried to cancel suspiciously eligible men began contacting her.


BOOK Married at First Swipe
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2021/01/book-married-at-first-swipe.html

article about "How Dating App Algorithms Work to Find the One for You "???
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2021/04/article-about-how-dating-app-algorithms.html
 

compatibility == STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2021/04/compatibility-strict-personality.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: Building Relationships: Online Dating and the New Logics of Internet Culture

http://www.amazon.com/Building-Relationships-Online-Internet-Culture/dp/149850857X

The book analyzes Match, eHarmony and OKCupid.

Please see also:
BOOK: "A Million First Dates: Solving the Puzzle of Online Dating"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/book-million-first-dates-solving-puzzle.html
NO INNOVATIONS SINCE YEARS!!!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/no-innovations-since-years.html

The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created.   There is no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms.
 
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 key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

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!
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.
but no one can show you a list of compatible persons like this:
( for a prospective male customer / sample but calculated with real values)
“Over 1,000,000 million women database, here is the list of the 12 more compatible with you. Notice that woman#1 is the most compatible with you but she could be more compatible with other men right now.
woman#01 is 95.58476277% compatible
woman#02 is 95.56224356% compatible
woman#03 is 95.52998273% compatible
woman#04 is 94.18354278% compatible
woman#05 is 93.00453871% compatible
woman#06 is 93.00007524% compatible
woman#07 is 92.99738452% compatible
woman#08 is 92.37945551% compatible
woman#09 is 92.29779173% compatible
woman#10 is 92.27114287% compatible
woman#11 is 92.19515551% compatible
woman#12 is 92.12249558% compatible”

  
Please read "LIFEPROJECT METHOD versus eHARMONY"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.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
 

New Book on Love and Online Dating

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/06/read-aziz-ansari-on-love-and-online-dating.html

Aziz Ansari’s first book, Modern Romance: An Investigation, comes out on 6/15, but you can read an excerpt today at Time Magazine.
http://time.com/aziz-ansari-modern-romance/
Ansari and sociologist Eric Klinenberg talked to people throughout the world in this humorous study on modern day romance’s relationship with technology, from social media and online dating sites to hook-up apps like Tinder.


The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created. There is no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms.
No one compatibility matching method is Scientifically Proven.
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%). In the same range as searching by your own.

I live in a South American country and I am really astonished to see how online daters in "1st World" countries are really victims of human experimentation. 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 key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

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!
but no one is scientifically proven!

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.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlationwith quantized patterns.
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 All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.

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", not 100% better, 100X better 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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html  

Online dating inspired Claudia Carroll's novel

http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2015/0403/691895-online-dating-inspired-claudia-carrolls-novel/

The Online Dating Industry is selling elixirs, tonics, snake oil liniments and other patent medicine and performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created where any player can make any claim without any credentials.
I live in a South American country and I am really astonished to see how online daters in "1st World" countries are really victims of human experimentation. 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 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%). In the same range as searching by your own. It needs to reduce the false positives problem and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance.  
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY, but ...
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. 

Please see:
The Surprising Way Most People Meet Their Partners 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/the-surprising-way-most-people-meet.html
article "Critics challenge the 'science’ behind online dating"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-critics-challenge-science.html

BOOK: "A Million First Dates: Solving the Puzzle of Online Dating"

A third of America's 90 million singles are turning to dating websites like eHarmony, Match, OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish, now embraced by pretty much every demographic. Thanks to the increasingly efficient algorithms (???) that power these sites, the possibilities are almost endless.

But the digital revolution is forcing us to ask new questions. Why should we settle for someone who falls short of our expectations if there are thousands of other options a click away? Can commitment thrive in a world of unlimited choice? Can chemistry really be quantified by math geeks?

"A Million First Dates: Solving the Puzzle of Online Dating" was previously published as "Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating "
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The Journalist Dan Slater had written the book "Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating", but he analyzed actual online dating sites like eHarmony, PerfectMatch, Chemistry, PlentyOfFish, MeeticAffinity, True and others offering compatibillity matching methods which are obsolete since years!

Actual matching algorithms used by eHarmony, Chemistry, PlentyOfFish and others, even behavioural recommender systems, can not be improved, they need to be discarded NOW. Because they are in the range of 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.
They can not break the online dating sound barrier!
You do not need to improve a piston engine when you need a jet engine to break sound barrier.

That range convergence phenomenon is what I had called "the online dating sound barrier", in 2003, when I had discovered than problem, 11 long years ago.

Do you want to innovate in the Online Dating Industry?
Read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014!  
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!
but no one is scientifically proven!

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone, Especially Ourselves

Dr. Dan Ariely had written the book The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone, Especially Ourselves.

I think any C-level online dating executive and many daters should read that book.

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%).
 

Dr. Dan Ariely cites Enron in the introduction, but I think Facebook will be like Enron soon.

 

New book: "AMORES MACABROS POR INTERNET"

"AMORES MACABROS POR INTERNET"
Rozic, Cecilia
ISBN: 9789872303358

Artículo en Clarín "La búsqueda de pareja por Internet es un desastre: los resultados son nefastos".

Estoy de acuerdo con lo que expresa la autora de este libro porque desde 2003 testeo los sitios de contactos personales usando perfiles falsos como marcadores.
Actualmente los sitios de contactos personales pagos a nivel mundial están estancados y algunos en decadencia porque sólo están respaldados por grandes presupuestos de marketing y no por evidencia científica seria. No hay ninguno que pueda demostrar -en un paper con referato y usando el método de doble_ciego- que el algoritmo de compatibilidad que ofrecen, puede formar parejas que vayan a tener una estabilidad y una satisfacción mayor que las parejas formadas por búsqueda propia, por azar, por destino astrológico o con otro método como grupo de control. Están en el orden de 3 o 4 personas que presentan como "compatibles" por cada 1.000 escaneadas, o sea una muy baja precisión, baja tasa de éxito en formación de parejas estables y felices, menor al 10%. Sólo son propuestas de mala calidad. Funcionan como si fueran un casino virtual, las personas que logran éxito son una minoría. Además en online dating, el sitio es exitoso si pierde los clientes porque lograron pareja estable, los debe perder de a 2. No tiene repetición de compra pero si recomendación.
La única forma de innovar es aprovechando los últimos descubrimientos científicos sobre teorías de relaciones románticas con compromiso.