Well first, thanks for posting this. Always nice to know someone enjoyed a post. On what you said... The big problem with the matching humans from what I can

Well first, thanks for posting this. Always nice to know someone enjoyed a post. On what you said... The big problem with the matching humans from what I can gather talking to people who try pure software solutions, is the lack of ground-truth. What appears on a site just doesn't match real life. Nothing beats the opportunity to evaluate a human in real-life. Any augmentation to help filter this process may have pay-off in a lot of other areas. I think you’re right that people lie but I think statistics can, to a certain extent, help with that. To give an example, let’s take a guy who loves Gilbert and Sullivan musicals but is ashamed of it so he says he hates theater productions. But then in response to other questions he reveals more truthful answers. Eventually, a statistical measurement will determine that Women who love musicals match best with guys who claim not to as long as they fit those other traits. So the computer never manages to decode the lie but it still, through the magic of statistics, manages to make the match just the same. I’m sure we’re years and years away from actually getting to the point of having an effective system like this but just the fact that we seem to have the power to do it is pretty amazing.