Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction

Re:Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied ... by mannykannot on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:31PM (#15144900)

I don't think we can necessarily assume that an arranged marriage is positive-to-neutral for both members of the couple, however. Parents may act in their own best interests or those of other members of the family, even if they tell themselves they are putting their child's interests first. Practices like dowries, and issues of gender inequality and the socio-economic status of families and clans, further cloud the issue.

Which is not to say that leaving it up to the kids themselves is always successful...

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Re:Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied ... by roceasta on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:50AM (#15146430)

So parents pick suitors and daughters have the power of veto. That way parents filter out bad boy thugs (who may damage her face) and those of lower economic/social classes (who may reduce her to penury). Daughter filters out people she finds repulsive. The traditional model as I understand it.

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