Chris McKinlay used data and algorithms to sift through thousands of profiles and find someone special.
This is Chris McKinlay, a 35-year-old maths Phd, who was looking for love using online dating sites, without much success.
He had been on six first dates, but that was about it. As he tells Wired , he thought there must be a more scientific approach to tackling the random nature of dating websites.
OkCupid works by asking people a series of questions about their personality then matching similar people with similar answers using an algorithm.
You are given a percentage match for each eligible partner. But the chances of being matched with someone who's perfect for you (or whom you like) is quite slim.
Out of the thousands of personality questions you might get asked, what if there was a way to find out which questions mattered to the women he might be interested in and just answer those?
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