Monday, August 08, 2011

Matched

From an article about the methods used by Match.com, the dating site --


As a result, Match began “weighting” variables differently, according to how users behaved. For example, if conservative users were actually looking at profiles of liberals, the algorithm would learn from that and recommend more liberal users to them. Indeed, says Thombre, “the politics one is quite interesting. Conservatives are far more open to reaching out to someone with a different point of view than a liberal is.” That is, when it comes to looking for love, conservatives are more open-minded than liberals.

Huh. I would not have guessed that.

3 comments:

Tabor said...

Is this because liberals are more fun in dating?

genderist said...

Hahaha

Cerulean Bill said...

I'd like to believe that, but...