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How to hack OkCupid
GarandMarine:
Yep. What he did was more... targeted marketing I think would be the term.
LookingIn:
The bottom line about the guy is this: the people who were matched up to him were always there but due to the extraneous questions skewing the results the true matchups were unable to be noticed until he took out those extraneous questions. He didn't deceive, manipulate, or falsify the results he simply got rid of what shouldn't have been involved in the calculations
LTK:
I wouldn't say "shouldn't have been". He catalogued the type of woman he's interested in and used duplicate accounts to find out what questions they found important - shifty, since ordinary users aren't supposed to be able to do this - and tailored his profile to appear desirable to those women, statistics-wise. It's really tricking OkCupid into telling those women "hey, this guy is exactly who you're looking for!" but whether they agree is not a given. If we continue the job interview analogy, he grouped potential employers into two categories and made a personalised resume for each of them, and is the only person ever recorded in doing so.
GarandMarine:
Considering the girl he ended up with admitted to tailoring her own profile a little after reading his... yeah he's the only guy to go to this extent, but I know I tailor my profile a little bit every now and then. So it's hardly unheard of. It's the sheer scale and methodology that's impressive.
Method of Madness:
The most important thing to remember is it just got them in the same room. Everything after that was done the old-fashioned way
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