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How dating app algorithms predict romantic desire
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Online dating apps
Lots of dating apps and websites claim to be able to use data to sort through profiles for better matches. But scientists and journalists can't investigate their claims, as the algorithms are the intellectual property of these companies and not publicly available.
This encouraged scientists to make their own app and examine predictors of attraction.
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Predicting romantic desire
The things that are needed to be able to predict romantic desire.
- Actor desire. How choosy people are.
- Partner desire or average attractiveness.
- Compatibility: Researchers measured compatibility by subtracting choosiness and attractiveness from dater's scores of romantic interest.
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Compatibility prediction
To account for research failure, it is believed that when two people actually meet, they form a shared dynamic that is more than the sum of its parts. Their individual preferences do not make up the substance of what they would find attractive.
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Successful predictions
A research team found that the distance between a potential partner and the idealized partner was the best predictor for attraction.
When we meet someone who is supposed to be interested in us, we are more flexible about who we are interested in.
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Dating apps approaches
Some dating apps look at core values and use that to match people who are as similar as possible.
Other dating apps ask very little in the way of preferences before they start to show you profiles. The apps refine as they learn about the user's preferences.
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Video Dating Or No Dating
Apps like OkCupid and Tinder see a decent surge in daily conversations in the last month. Ironically, the feature that they have recently introduced, Video Dating, wasn’t asked by anyone before the pandemic, as everyone preferred real dating. Now, due to everyone in lockdown, it is the most used feature and has shot up the app engagement.
Video dating, which has witnessed a 200 percent increase in OkCupid, lets the dating couples check the ‘vibe’ of their partner, and decide if the person can be dated in future.
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- Watch TikTok Videos, trying to understand Millennials and Gen Z
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- Tackle a crossword puzzle together
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- Read the same book and discuss it on video chat.
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Friend-zoning is a notion that men and women have different perspectives.
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People who think they are highly attractive may incorrectly assume that the other person is sexually interested in them.
Taking The Lead
Men look for signs or attraction more than women do, like it has always been. Men initiate the love and take the lead, deciding to move out of a platonic relationship faster than women.
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Data On Online Dating
- 40% of Americans use online dating as a way to meet new people.
- 23% of Americans still think using online dating sites is desperate.
Data On Online Daters
- 53% of Americans lie in their profiles. Women tend to post younger photos of themselves and claim to be thinner, while men tend to lie about their careers.
- Even on apps known as being for "hook up", most females are looking for a genuine match and not a fling.
- Two-thirds of online daters have gone out with someone they were matched with.
- One-third of people who have used online dating have never actually gone on a date.
Data On Relationships Started Online
- Relationships that begin online are nearly 30% more likely to break down than ones where couples met face-to-face first.
- 20% of committed relationships began online.
- Marriages from online couples are three times as likely to end in divorce.
- 17% of couples that were married in the last year met on a dating website.