Desrtopa comments on Feed the spinoff heuristic! - Less Wrong

49 Post author: CarlShulman 09 February 2012 07:41AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (85)
Tags: academia science verification contrarianism parapsychology

Comments (85)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: khafra 11 February 2012 01:15:23AM 4 points [-]

Contrary evidence:

“To date, there is no compelling evidence that any online dating matching algorithm actually works,” Finkel observes. “If dating sites want to claim that their matching algorithm is scientifically valid, they need to adhere to the standards of science, which is something they have uniformly failed to do. In fact, our report concludes that it is unlikely that their algorithms can work, even in principle, given the limitations of the sorts of matching procedures that these sites use.”

Comment author: Desrtopa 12 February 2012 05:57:40AM *  3 points [-]

I don't know if any of the dating sites they reviewed use a similar system to OkCupid (users answer questions and also pick how they want matches to answer those questions and how important they are to them,) but I don't think OkCupid was included in that study. The author wrote that the matching algorithms of the companies they reviewed are proprietary, and were not shared with the researchers, but OkCupid's matching algorithm is publicly available.

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit