MERCURY NEWS - Aug 1 - Romance
doesn't lend itself to yardsticks and calculators. But the proliferation
of online sites like
Match.com,
PlanetOut.com and
FarmersOnly.com give
social scientists unprecedented opportunities to study who likes whom,
and why. "But I'm not sure we'll ever find the algorithm that eliminates the
need to actually get to know someone," said one of the new field's
leading researchers, UC Berkeley's Andrew Fiore. Online dating sites reveal the motivated behavior of people actually
seeking real partners, he said. Through "content analysis," researchers can study how people
market themselves.
Among the findings:
- Men
most often make the first move
- Both men and women seek partners who are similar to themselves in
age, education, height, religion, politics and views about smoking
- Women are less open-minded, at least regarding ethnicity
- Both sexes exaggerate a bit. Men add a half-inch to their height;
women miraculously drop five pounds off their weight
- Appearance
matters
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Last May I had sent an email to the Berkeley Online Relationship Lab saying:
I had been following your research in the Online Dating Arena since several years ago and I had noticed your research is not as good as it should be.
Papers and Posters from http://groups.ischool.berkeley.edu/datingresearch/publications.php
are more suitable for an overall "C" than for an outstanding calification.
It is clear YOU ARE NOT leadering research in the Online Dating Arena.
Online Dating Sites can be classified as:
Online Dating 1.0: "Browsing/Searching Options, Powerful Searching Engines"
Online Dating 1.5: "Unidirectional Recommendation Engines"
Online Dating 2.0: "Matching based on Self-Reported Data / Bidirectional or Behavioral Recommendation Engines"
Online Dating 3.0: "Compatibility Matching Algorithms"
You had been researching mainly in Online Dating Sites 1.0: "Browsing/Searching Options, Powerful Searching Engines"
Klohnen & Mendelsohn in 1998
"romantic partners showing strong similarity in age, political, and religious attitudes; moderate similarity in education, general intelligence, and values; and little or no similarity in personality characteristics "
Some years later, Klohnen & Luo in 2005
"People may be attracted to those who have similar attitudes, values, and beliefs and even marry them (at least in part) on the basis of this similarity. However, once individuals are in a committed relationship, IT MAY BE PRIMARILY PERSONALITY SIMILARITY THAT INFLUENCES MARITAL HAPPINESS"
I will suggest you should urgently turnaround the focus of your Online Dating Research to Online Dating 3.0: "Compatibility Matching Algorithms".
Latest Research in Theories of Romantic Relationships Development outlines: compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*personality measured with a normative test.
*similarity: there are differents ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.
Posted by: Account Deleted | Aug 02, 2010 at 08:29 PM
I personally don't like online dating. I prefer to meet my man face to face...but i'm not saying it's wrong
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