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Continuing on the discussion about online matchmaking sites, let’s consider the famous 436-question personality test that a person is required to take upon joining eHarmony.com. The company believes so strongly in the test that it won’t let its users just simply browse through all the photos of people in a certain age range and living in a particular area. Instead, the site only allows you to see photos and profiles of potential partners whom it thinks are a good match for you, according to the personality test. In other words, their computer software really is trying to be a matchmaker.
But does this work? The folks at eHarmony.com would like us to believe that the relationships that result from matches made by their software will be happier and longer-lived than relationships that originate…well, randomly, without using matchmaking software. But according to The New York Times, there is no proof of this claim because it has not been scientifically tested. So we really don’t know if eHarmony’s matchmaking software is worthwhile or not. What do you think?
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 at 8:39 pm and is filed under Theories of Love.
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