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rschill:
I think this ought to be a wake up call for OK Cupid ore than anything.  They should have been doing something like this to begin with. 

Metope:
What, making it possible to see what other people answered before you answered the same question yourself? This guy was actually looking for a girlfriend, but that seems like a really easy way of lying about yourself to get into someone's pants if you ask me.

rschill:

--- Quote from: Metope on 27 Jan 2014, 10:10 ---What, making it possible to see what other people answered before you answered the same question yourself? This guy was actually looking for a girlfriend, but that seems like a really easy way of lying about yourself to get into someone's pants if you ask me.

--- End quote ---

I mean, OK Cupid was supposed to find some likely matches for this guy and the woman he ended up with, but they failed.  He made the system get the results it was supposed to.  Yeah, his methods are worrying and in the hands of a manipulative bastard could probably be abused, but he only manipulated a system.

He didn't lie, he just told the truth in the most effective way. 

Metope:
What I wonder is how different his answers were to begin with. Sure, he said he hadn't answered the right questions, but like... it doesn't take very long to do that, just don't skip lots of questions and you're fine since the questions rated as the most popular and useful ones tend to come first. When I had a profile, I answered tons of questions, hardly skipping any an I had several 90% and higher matches, and I live in a much smaller place than him. If his questions were honest in both his first 'regular' attempt and in the later, more calculated attempts, how come the results were so extremely different? He must have changed a lot of stuff around, and I have a hard time seeing anyone staying unbiased in their favour when you know what the other people are looking for.

jwhouk:
From what I read, it wasn't the answers that were what he manipulated, but the "weight" of his answers.

Think of it like this: he likes A, B, D, and X. However, he found through his research that women (in his "area") had more likes of D and A than B and X. So, he adjusted his profile to emphasize D and A, while still being honest about B and X.

He wasn't lying. He was trying to make connections from an altruistic POV. "What factors about me do you like?" Is essentially what he was doing.

From there, he just had to make connections.

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