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Mastering the Hidden Logic of OkCupid
Author Self-Published
January 2014
On Sale: January 17, 2014
ISBN: 1390537778
EAN: 9781495334245
Kindle: B00HY351S2
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help Relationships
An easy-to-implement blueprint from the mathematician who
reverse-engineered OkCupid and met the woman of his dreams
in 90 days. Christopher McKinlay has been featured in Wired Magazine for
his groundbreaking analysis of OkCupid. For the first time
he’s showing non-experts how to turn Internet dating on its
head. This concise guide will show anyone (straight, gay,
male or female) the procedure McKinlay used to meet his
fiancee and how the same ideas can transform their lives and
bring them from browsing to contact. One summer evening while logged into a supercomputer in
Colorado waiting for a large computation, McKinlay was
killing time on OkC when he was troubled by a problem: what
if large groups of people responded to OkCupid’s personality
questionnaire in statistically similar ways? He created
custom software to scrape data from the site, collecting
over 6,000,000 answers to OkC’s “match questions” from more
than 20,000 real users. This data made clear he’d been using
the site the wrong way. Based on his findings, McKinlay (a mathematics PhD),
optimized his own profile. The transformation was profound.
He went from showing a “match percentage” of 90% with a few
hundred women in the L.A. area to showing 90% or higher with
over 30,000 local women. Unsolicited messages from
attractive strangers began flooding his inbox. With a foreword by Jon Finkel, McKinlay’s insightful how-to
will teach you how to benefit from the buried statistical
patterns of online romance.
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