The world’s best compatibility matching engine

by David Evans on January 25, 2008 · 2 comments

in Personality Testing

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According to No More Dates, they have the best matching system in the business. I will leave the analysis up to Dr. Houran and Fernando in the comments, as usual. FIRO-B and CPI 260, it’s all greek to me.

What I found startling was this:

Please note that although we use the above report for matching purposes, at this time we are not permitted to share it with you as it might contain information that has been deemed as “potentially psychologically damaging”. We are working on creating a new version of the report which we will be able to share with you in the near future.

Sounds like a great selling point.

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Fernando ArdenghiNo Gravatar 01.26.08 at 12:52 am
NoMoreDates == a “Diet” version of eHarmony, i.e. a cheaper and more liberal version for olders than 25, only in English and only for USA (asked a five digit zip code).

Mr. Evans, Are you going to interview the CEO?
Please ask:
* Who is the Chief Psychologist Officer / brain behind the compatibility/matching algorithm?
* Scientific Evidence that could substantiate the method?
* How exactly matches are generated? The importance the matching algorithm assign to zip codes, self description of what a person wants (FIRO-B), measured personality (CPI260), etc?
* How I can delete the fake profile I invented? NoMoreDates could not find any compatible woman for me.

The world’s best compatibility matching engine will be the one that could increase marriages and drop divorce rates in different countries.

— for informative purposes —

* normative CPI260 test available languages
only English ?

* normative 16PF5 test available languages
Afrikaans, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English for Australia, English for Canada, English for India, English for South Africa, English for the United Kingdom, English for the United States, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European and New World), Portuguese of Brazil, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish-American, Swedish, Slovak, Turkish

Kindest Regards,

Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com

StephanieNo Gravatar 02.06.08 at 5:45 pm
Ok, I wonder if these guys exist anymore? I subscribed in January, live on the West Coast and e-mailed them to see if they were getting users out here. Other than an automated reply saying they’ll get back to me, I’ve heard nothing. So I cancelled.

Anyone actually using this site?

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