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4chan marketing aside, it looks like the basic idea here is to reinvent what OKCupid used to be once upon a time, before Match Group bought it out and holled it
by crooked-v 2y ago
4chan marketing aside, it looks like the basic idea here is to reinvent what OKCupid used to be once upon a time, before Match Group bought it out and holled it out into yet another Tinder clone.
- morkalork 2y agoIf you can find their old datascience blogs (that have since been purged), there's some interesting stuff in there. Iirc, one of the saddest revelations is the feature that best predicts outcome was income, and that hobbies/interests that looked like good predictors were just correlated with income. To use an extreme example, are two people a good match because they both like Polo or was it because they're both from the same social strata where Polo is a thing.
- npteljes 2y agoI agree with this, but funnily enough, this makes the system work, just not for the reasons at face value. So, people don't match because of they like similar hobbies, they match because they look for the same proxies of values and status.
- morkalork 2y agoYup. I should've used education in the example, are you really interested in the fact that the other person has a master's degree itself or is it a signal that they come from a certain societal background or lifetime earning potential.
- npteljes 2y agoOh yeah, that's another good proxy. But the one you brought up, polo, is also a good one, because I remember about a statistics example, hopefully not made up - where a correlation was found between keeping horses and good health, and horses just turned out to be a proxy for wealth.
- morkalork 2y agoHehe yes, much like how one glass of red wine a day is just so beneficial for your health.