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By: David Evans

David Evans — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:52:22 +0000

“all of this compatibility stuff never works”
Did you carve that on a rock while driving your horse and buggy?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:32:55 +0000

I’m totally agree with Markus.Only local could work ,and all of this compatibility stuff never works , just waisting time

By: Markus

Markus — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:09:28 +0000

No one cares how compatible you are with someone on the other side of the world, or country. No dating site is ever going to take that approach unless they want to go bankrupt. Dating is local, and that is never going to change.

By: Fernando Ardenghi

Fernando Ardenghi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:33:38 +0000

“My online dating neurosis occurs when I think about the women that I’m not connecting with because my dating services are not putting them in front of me for some reason or another ….. I meet a TON of women ….”

Great News!!!
You are over connected with more women than you should!!! You are not missing any of them because actual online dating sites offering compatibility matching methods could reach “as low as” 3 / 4 persons high compatible per 1,000 persons, so in a 1,000,000 women database, you have as many as 3,000 / 4,000 women to contact (nearly at the same time).

I think you will want to receive an email like this:
“Hi Dave.
Over 1,000,000 million women database, here is the list of the 12 more compatible with you. Notice that woman#1 is the most compatible but she could be more compatible with other men right now.
woman#01 is 95.58476277% compatible
woman#02 is 95.56224356% compatible
woman#03 is 95.52998273% compatible
woman#04 is 94.18354278% compatible
woman#05 is 93.00453871% compatible
woman#06 is 93.00007524% compatible
woman#07 is 92.99738452% compatible
woman#08 is 92.37945551% compatible
woman#09 is 92.29779173% compatible
woman#10 is 92.27114287% compatible
woman#11 is 92.19515551% compatible
woman#12 is 92.12249558% compatible”

Many sites like YahooPersonals (WeAttract), Chemistry and others could receive feedback from their clients/users to make minor changes or slightly corrections, but not great improvements nor they recalculate compatibility between prospectives mates in its entire big database. They are still providing as many prospective partners as before.

If eHarmony really wants to improve its matching method, its owners should discard Dyadic Adjustment Scale and adopt a high precision quantitative method to compare quantized patterns like the one I had invented.

Kindest Regards,

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

By: David Evans

David Evans — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:57:51 +0000

Coke has tried several different styles, some work, some didn’t.

I get your point about localism, but sugar or corn syrup is a lot different than adjusting a testing mechanism to reflect local cultures.

At least Coke has an ingredient label!

I disagree 100% that testing should be static and never change. Why avoid making the test better (Hence my Google reference.) the science you guys reference is less than 75 years old and how long have we been on this planet? Like you have it figured out already?

Don’t forget, if you put a nail in a bottle of coke, in a week it has disappeared :-)

By: Fernando Ardenghi

Fernando Ardenghi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:25:55 +0000

Any serious online dating site offering compatibility matching should be more like … Coca Cola than Google.
The Coca Cola formula is so good, there is no need to change it.
(there were only minor corrections through last 100 years, and there are local versions with sugar or corn syrup.)

Kindest Regards,

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