I was contacted by a graduate student in New York who is doing a thesis and related radio show about the role of science in online dating. He is taping in a few weeks and I want to put him in touch with a few industry experts. If you’re interested, working in the dating industry or have a personality test/profiling system that would be of interest, contact me.
I’m putting together a list of what I want to talk about on the show.
The status of personality testing: What works and what doesn’t. Spring Street made millions with 5 questions, eHarmony hundreds of millions on hundreds of questions, Chemistry growing strong, with 25 questions. What else can we measure?
Aromatherapy/Pheromones: I wore a patch last year for a week to see how women responded, results mixed and I smelled like bad perfume.
How science will be used in online dating sites in 2008 and beyond: DNA, voice analysis, image analysis and many other topics.
Interesting that several of my current clients are involved with leading-edge technologies and science related to helping people find better matches more efficiently. I love working with these types of companies- driven, well-funded, and a blast to work with, my kind of people.
What else should we discuss, and with whom?
