SPSS. Yuck. Presumably anyone who pursued a degree in the Social Sciences has at once point, encountered this program. Hypothesize. Input data. Achieve or don't achieve an answer with a certain level of mathematical faith that the answer is correct. Can you achieve a critical p-value in online dating?
Blind Population: no subscription, no photos, no exceptions. Sad face from an attraction perspective, but is forcing me to judge the book before the cover.
Consistent Questions: I haven't altered my original Cosmo quiz questions, must-haves-and-can't-stands, or my open ended questions.
"Guided" Random Selection: Officially eHarmony is orchestrating selection, based on my lack of stability, excess of energy, and midrange affection, but as far as I'm concerned..it's all random.
eHarmony places a high level of mathematical "faith" in dating. They hypothesize a match based on 39 (50? 1 million?) "areas of compatibility." They test the hypothesis by introducing the couple. Variables such as values, attitudes towards work, and (gasp) open-ended questions are introduced as each level is qualified as containing a significant enough p-value to continue on.
RomComs lead us to believe love is found in intangibles like fate, chance meetings and tall/dark/tousled-curls/handsome strangers. But does U+Me really = Us (Calculus)?
xo,
$ingle Lady #1
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ummm SL#1, SPSS is awesomeeee
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