DISCOVERY NEWS - Feb 7 - Online dating can be misleading from the
get-go, starting with people's dating profiles, research shows. Nicole
Ellison and her colleagues measured the difference between dating
profile "facts" and reality by comparing posted information with what
was on the test subject's drivers' license. ~52.6% of men lied about
their height, as did 39% of women. 64.1% of women lied about their
weight. Age in profiles is also suspect, since 24.3% of men and 13.1%
of women were untruthful about their age. "Never before has the dating
world been so handy for married men and women looking for a fling,"
said Beatriz Avila Mileham, who studied online infidelity while at the
University of Florida. 83% percent of Mileham's study participants said
they did not consider themselves to be cheating. Despite the pitfalls
of online dating, experts say certain people may benefit. A 2004 study
by eHarmony's Steve Carter and Chadwick Snow shows "significantly
higher levels of relationship satisfaction for married couples who met
through eHarmony as compared to a group who met offline". FULL ARTICLE @ DISCOVERY NEWS
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a Fruitful Tool ?
The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with low succesfull rates.
The executives of major online dating sites were more worried in attracting, converting and retaining subscribers with "automatic renewal" of their subscriptions and other "credit-card billing trickery", than offering a good compatibility matching method.
The 2009 showed big sites like Match, Chemistry, True, eHarmony, PerfectMatch, Be2, Parship, Meetic and other paid sites have less worldwide traffic than 1 year ago or decaying in traffic.
Actual online dating sites offering compatibility matching methods are only fueled by big marketing budgets and not by serious scientific evidence. No one (nor eHarmony, nor Chemistry, nor PerfectMatch, nor PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, nor Yahoo!Personals) can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer_reviewed Scientific Paper. They are all like placebo, because
* Actual online dating sites offering compatibility matching methods, when calculating compatibility between prospective mates, have less or at least the same precision as searching on one's own. [in the range of 3 or 4 persons compatible per 1,000 persons screened]
* That is because they use:
a) simplified versions of personality traits, instead of the 16PF5 or similar with the complete inventory (16 variables)
b) inadequate quantitative methods to calculate compatibility between prospective mates, like eHarmony which uses Dyadic Adjustment Scale or other sites which use multivariate linear / logistic regression equations o other equations.
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
[email protected]
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