I think I would have to pull Efficient Market Hypothesis on this and direct you to e.g. Match.com. Huge multinational dating sites are dependent on making good matches and I can’t think of any strong enough reasons to expect the market to be inefficient enough for me to do better.
Doubtful. For-profit dating services make their profits off of keeping people on their platforms for as long as possible. Thus, it’s very much in Match’s interests to prevent people from meeting any hyperidealized “soulmate” for as long as possible.
For-profits operate in a marketplace. Provided the marketplace is working, it doesn’t matter if they would rather keep people on the site by giving poor matches—if they don’t match people well then another company will give the people what they want and take their market share.
First you need to show that a company can operate against the interests of its customers for an extended time period without market consequences, then you can talk about what the company would like to do with this ability.
I don’t claim this can’t happen, just that the market working properly should be the null hypothesis.
I think I would have to pull Efficient Market Hypothesis on this and direct you to e.g. Match.com. Huge multinational dating sites are dependent on making good matches and I can’t think of any strong enough reasons to expect the market to be inefficient enough for me to do better.
You can read a bit about how Match.com do it here.
Doubtful. For-profit dating services make their profits off of keeping people on their platforms for as long as possible. Thus, it’s very much in Match’s interests to prevent people from meeting any hyperidealized “soulmate” for as long as possible.
For-profits operate in a marketplace. Provided the marketplace is working, it doesn’t matter if they would rather keep people on the site by giving poor matches—if they don’t match people well then another company will give the people what they want and take their market share.
First you need to show that a company can operate against the interests of its customers for an extended time period without market consequences, then you can talk about what the company would like to do with this ability.
I don’t claim this can’t happen, just that the market working properly should be the null hypothesis.