Okay, fine, I read that New Yorker article because none of you wanted to read it for me. It was sooooo long that I had to break it up into five different sections. I believe it was over 10,000 words; hope the author got paid by the word.
Anyway, I think the article was arguing that online dating is actually a pretty good way to find a match. For example, Okcupid has huge amounts of data which they use to create statistically significant theories/algorithims. I think I am going a bit too nerd right now and no, I cannot say with 95% certainty that I am summarizing all the points correctly. However, I do know the article talked about how online dating could really help folks find their match. Enough for me, let's do this.
By the way, Okcupid was started by a bunch of Harvard math guys (they love data). Okcupid was bought by match.com. I think it would be safe to assume that match.com has integrated some of the okcupid data handling techniques.
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