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This seems to be good advice. The more you know about a person, before you can properly meet them, the more likely you are to find out something that seems mass

This seems to be good advice. The more you know about a person, before you can properly meet them, the more likely you are to find out something that seems massively off-putting and shatters your impression of you. I know a sample of 1 is nothing etc. but I read an article [1] a while back about a woman who tracked everything she could about every date she went on for two years, and one of the most interesting things I felt was that if she met someone through a dating site, it meant that she knew a lot more about them up-front, and thus didn't like them as much. [1](http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/what-you-can-learn-about-dating-from-data/8058916 http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/what-you-can-lea...)

pmoriarty 10y ago
That's a really interesting article. The part that most resonated with me came at the end: "People can look great on paper but it doesn't mean that they are the right person for you. "That was basically what came from this whole project - chemistry can't be quantified. I have no idea why this guy I am falling for, even though he looks terrible on paper and then another guy is awesome on paper and I don't care about him at all." I wish more people tracked the data about their dating experiences and shared their results.