How OkCupid predicts who you will like

Cool, in a mathy way. But it just feels emblematic of the problem of modern engineering attitudes (in that it fetishizes itself over user experience).

What I mean is that taking the convenient statistic and saying "seems to be 80% good" instead of looking at the end-user-experience is a huge part of the problem. Psychology studies show over and over that often more choice can lead to less satisfaction, for example.

[To point, maybe giving a user 5 bad matches and 1 good match is more likely to result in a date than would giving them 6 good matches. If you don't look at the big picture experience-wise all of your complicated math thoughts may be of 0 or negative value, ironically]

Now I get it's much easier to model online dating as though it's a marketplace of assets rather actual (emotional, universally irrational) humans. But I think the real value proposition is in the latter.

Met my partner on OKC a few years ago, their % match was eerily accurate.

Only used it for a couple of months but the user experience was superior to the other one I tried (PoF which felt like it was abandoned).

She's pretty much a female version of me minus the programming (though her fascination with shipping and logistics is pretty much as bad as mine with computers).

OKStupid seems to consistently pair me with super-feminists in the Millie Tant mold.

I mean, sure, fight the good fight and all that, but if you're questioning whether you're even a woman I'm afraid dating me is not going to work out. It makes me wonder what sort of signal I sent that their algorithm locked onto.

The fact that 80% of the women on OKCupid go for the top 20% of men on there means this b.s. doesn't matter and they're just trying to stay relevant lol.

May be really interesting seeing whether OKC Match Percentage correlates with the double take right swipes percentage. I mean: given a calculated match between two persons, what is the probability to get a double right swipe in the double take feature.

Who you like versus who you are actually compatible with are two different problems. I'd imagine online dating services will never figure out the latter.