THE ATLANTIC - Jan 18 - Tinder uses a variation of ELO scoring to determine how members rank among the site's userbase, and therefore, which profiles to suggest and whose queues profiles show up in. Invented by the physics professor Arpad Elo to determine rankings among chess players, ELO assigns ranks by judging players' presumed skill levels against each other, when translated to Tinder, the algorithm can be understood on a basic level as one where who you match with determines who the app shows to you. Users matched with those with a high ELO will see the people Tinder as a whole finds more desirable. Those sporting a lower ELO, will only see people who don't get as many matches from high-ranking users.
by Michelle Ehrdhardt
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