Still smarting from yet another disastrous date? It looks like this cupid's aim may have been way off-target. OkCupid, the popular and free dating site, has been manipulating users' compatibility in order to study and monitor dating behavior, the site revealed. In a blog post that ran on Monday, company president Christian Rudder admits: "We might be popular, but OkCupid doesn't really know what it's doing … Experiments are how you sort all this out." Those experiments involved twiddling with the site's compatibility data to make users think they're a better match than they really are - and vice versa. Case in point: In one experiment,...
- 7/29/2014
- by Katherine Foreman, @katrambles
- PEOPLE.com
Still smarting from yet another disastrous date? It looks like this cupid's aim may have been way off-target. OkCupid, the popular and free dating site, has been manipulating users' compatibility in order to study and monitor dating behavior, the site revealed. In a blog post that ran on Monday, company president Christian Rudder admits: "We might be popular, but OkCupid doesn't really know what it's doing … Experiments are how you sort all this out." Those experiments involved twiddling with the site's compatibility data to make users think they're a better match than they really are - and vice versa. Case in point: In one experiment,...
- 7/29/2014
- by Katherine Foreman, @katrambles
- PEOPLE.com
As if dating wasn't hard enough, amirite?! One of the founders of the dating site OkCupid, Christian Rudder, wrote a company blog post about how it's been secretly experimenting with its members in order to find the best ways to match people. Sound familiar? Well, just last month Facebook revealed that they were playing around with their members' news feeds to see if they could affect peoples' moods. As you can imagine, the reactions to both Facebook and OkCupid's announcement were less than stellar. "I'm the first to admit it: we might be popular, we might create a lot of great relationships, we might blah blah blah," Rudder wrote. "But OkCupid doesn't really know...
- 7/29/2014
- E! Online
Frequent Twitter users have shorter relationships than people who don't use the social-networking site, OkCupid, the online dating site and Daily Beast partner, found in a survey. Jessica Bennett on why thinking in 140-character bursts is shrinking our love lives. Plus, 10 charts about sex.
In an age where 140-character tweets have replaced talking on the telephone, where job and work and social life are multitasked between 19 open browsers, the idea that our attention spans are shrinking has become pretty well accepted. Last year, two Northwestern professors documented how the 15-second TV spot had come to replace lengthier, more in-depth (and by in-depth we mean 30-second) advertisements-an effort to match attention spans of the majority of viewers. Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, has described how modern technology has pushed so many distractions on us that it's possible we'll never have our attention spans return. "It used to be that the...
In an age where 140-character tweets have replaced talking on the telephone, where job and work and social life are multitasked between 19 open browsers, the idea that our attention spans are shrinking has become pretty well accepted. Last year, two Northwestern professors documented how the 15-second TV spot had come to replace lengthier, more in-depth (and by in-depth we mean 30-second) advertisements-an effort to match attention spans of the majority of viewers. Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, has described how modern technology has pushed so many distractions on us that it's possible we'll never have our attention spans return. "It used to be that the...
- 4/19/2011
- by Jessica Bennett
- The Daily Beast
A new study appears to show that beautiful people are happier than their ugly counterparts-but research has also proven good looks to be a curse, especially on the job. Jessica Bennett reports.
If self-conscious young women didn't have enough to worry about, here's an awful new stereotype to add to the mix: Ugly people are sad. Not innately, of course-but over time, the curse of unattractiveness will affect them in so many ways that it's actually quantifiable. Ugly people make less money. They have trouble finding a mate. And in a culture that places insurmountable pressure on appearance, they don't feel as good about themselves when they walk down the street.
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These are the findings of a new report out of the University of Texas at Austin, called "Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness". Compiling data from more...
If self-conscious young women didn't have enough to worry about, here's an awful new stereotype to add to the mix: Ugly people are sad. Not innately, of course-but over time, the curse of unattractiveness will affect them in so many ways that it's actually quantifiable. Ugly people make less money. They have trouble finding a mate. And in a culture that places insurmountable pressure on appearance, they don't feel as good about themselves when they walk down the street.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Siren of the Financial Meltdown
These are the findings of a new report out of the University of Texas at Austin, called "Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness". Compiling data from more...
- 3/31/2011
- by Jessica Bennett
- The Daily Beast
OkCupid is one of the internet's largest free dating service with over 3.5 million active users. OkTrends is OkCupid's "original research and insights" division, compiling observations and statistics from literally hundreds of millions of OkCupid user interactions in order to assess, evaluate, and explore the "data side of the online dating world." Christian Rudder and the OkTrends crew leverage data collected from their massive userbase to publish amazing reports on everything from what white people actually like to what combination of eye contact, smile, and skin makes for the most engaging profile picture to why younger men should be more open to dating older women. It's about time the world's largest video sharing site did something similar. YouTube Trends is a brand new YouTube destination devoted to making sense of the 35 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute, as well as the viewing actions of over 146,000,000 unique monthly visitors.
- 12/13/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Bishop Allen has broken through to a larger audience than any Brooklyn Diy power-pop duo could be expected to, first by landing the twinkly song “Click, Click, Click, Click” in a camera commercial, then by belting out the ferociously catchy “Middle Management” in the movie Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist. The band’s third LP, Grrr…, is designed to appeal to fans of those two semi-hits; it’s a record full of explosive percussion, scratchy guitars, and fragments of melody that bandleaders Justin Rice and Christian Rudder repeat until they wear down listeners’ resistance. Much of Grrr… ventures pretty ...
- 3/10/2009
- avclub.com
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