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I wonder if the old blog posts are even still up. After they were bought by Match Group, all those experiments stopped, and the site became one with the borg.
by c0nducktr 7y ago
I wonder if the old blog posts are even still up.
After they were bought by Match Group, all those experiments stopped, and the site became one with the borg. It's depressing that one shitty corporation, controls every fucking dating site, and has the money to buy pretty much any competitor at this point.
- disqard 7y agoSomebody archived them here [0] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/comments/aapn1l/okcupid_blog_archives/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/comments/aapn1l/okcupid_blog_...
- iudqnolq 7y agoThank you. The one top of chain was referring to was https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/weexperimentonhumanbeings.html https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/weexperimenton...
- yorwba 7y agoThat doesn't seem to show that "Long conversations were instantly abandoned." The graph of "conversation life expectancy vs. normal" vs "where in the thread the photos came back on" does show a dip in life expectancy of 20%-30% if photos appeared after just a few messages, but the gap grows smaller the more messages had been exchanged. In other words, the longer a conversation had been going on, the smaller the influence of learning what the other person looked like was.