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• 1. André Luís  |  April 18th, 2008 at 11:07 am

  “In online dating profiles what people do is they talk about themselves in maybe 200 words and they say the most important things about themselves. So it’s a very fertile ground for building a mosaic of humanity” (~3:02)

  Wow… never really thought of it that way.

  Impressive vis work.

• 2. John Spencer  |  April 18th, 2008 at 11:07 am

  Nice video thnx for sharing it was an interesting way to show how people are using online dating services…. JS

• 3. Prentiss Riddle  |  May 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm

  Intriguing, if rather “heteronormative”, as they say. I’d love to have access to their dataset.

  I also ran into this interesting paper the other day:

  “What Makes You Click? — Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating” by Hitch, Hortaçsu and Ariely (2006)
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=895442

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