Re:How OkCupid predicts who you will like
by alexandercrohde on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:40AM
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Cool, in a mathy way. But it just feels emblematic of the problem of modern engineering attitudes (in that it fetishizes itself over user experience).
What I mean is that taking the convenient statistic and saying "seems to be 80% good" instead of looking at the end-user-experience is a huge part of the problem. Psychology studies show over and over that often more choice can lead to less satisfaction, for example.
[To point, maybe giving a user 5 bad matches and 1 good match is more likely to result in a date than would giving them 6 good matches. If you don't look at the big picture experience-wise all of your complicated math thoughts may be of 0 or negative value, ironically]
Now I get it's much easier to model online dating as though it's a marketplace of assets rather actual (emotional, universally irrational) humans. But I think the real value proposition is in the latter.
What I mean is that taking the convenient statistic and saying "seems to be 80% good" instead of looking at the end-user-experience is a huge part of the problem. Psychology studies show over and over that often more choice can lead to less satisfaction, for example.
[To point, maybe giving a user 5 bad matches and 1 good match is more likely to result in a date than would giving them 6 good matches. If you don't look at the big picture experience-wise all of your complicated math thoughts may be of 0 or negative value, ironically]
Now I get it's much easier to model online dating as though it's a marketplace of assets rather actual (emotional, universally irrational) humans. But I think the real value proposition is in the latter.