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Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by Hello71 »

eevilspock wrote: post #110
DanielStraight wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for putting into clear words my gut impression that this wouldn't produce the intended result. I wonder if you couldn't do better with binary questions. I'm reminded of the site http://www.correlated.org/ . Suppose you were to ask a bunch of binary questions, and then use some statistics to find questions that have fairly evenly distributed and non-correlated results, then take 24 of the best questions by t…

okcupid does exactly this. Most of their questions are submitted by the users themselves, and they have hundreds if not thousands of them, but they present the questions to you in the order of most differentiating first. You can answer as many or as few as you want, but matches get better as you answer more, with monotonically diminishing returns. You also get to say which answers you would accept from your match (do…

or like Akinator: http://en.akinator.com/

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by tsmith »

kefka wrote: post #150
Codhisattva wrote: post #149

These questions are so heavily stilted towards white male start up culture it's laughable.

I noticed that. The question "if you got 100K for saving lil old woman", my choice wasn't there. Pay my debts.

Also missing: put it in the bank (i.e. do nothing).

The answers to the "greatest satisfaction" question are also telling. They are all job/business related. There's not even a single "spend time with my friends and family" catch-all.

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by thesteamboat »

abustamam wrote: post #129
edem wrote: post #107

At the time of writing there are 15099 filled tests so producing a match (assuming that all 8 answers must be the same) is highly unlikely (0,08%) if I assume even distribution.

Assuming even distribution, there would need to be 8^8 quizzes taken before there's a match. Will we get that many people to take the quiz? I guess time will tell.

You may want to read about the "Birthday paradox"[1]. Short version the expected time for there to be a match with you is much much larger than the expected time to find a match at all.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_Paradox

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by pavel_lishin »

userbinator wrote: post #135
iyn wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like your idea about the hashtag. I don't think that the definitive answers are the best approach (I'd prefer multiple answers), but it'd interesting if we were able to design a "format" that could be used to describe one's answers.

but it'd interesting if we were able to design a "format" that could be used to describe one's answers It's 24 bits, so how about six hex digits, like HTML colour codes?

Haha, I really like that idea - it would be great if you could somehow make similar colors match similar people, but I guess that's not really feasible.

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by hobarrera »

I find that the options to the answers are ridiculous limited:

Question 1: "AT A PARTY YOU..." Missing answer: "I don't go to parties".

The same applies to most of them. It seems like the author got some friends to write down possible answer, but didn't assume that there are people way more different than themselves. I can't answer honestly to most of them, so I can see how it'll fail horrible to find someone else like myself.

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by hobarrera »

btilly wrote: post #97

Interesting idea. Bad execution. There is NO way that performance should be so bad given current load. Some of the questions are frustrating. For instance question #4 is "YOU SAVE AN OLD LADY'S LIFE. IN GRATITUDE SHE GIVES YOU $100,000. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH MOST OF IT?" The obvious answer for me is, "Save it." But all possible answers are ways to spend it or give it away. I chose "Move to a nicer neighborhood", but th…

Yeah, or options like "Pay my debts".

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by Codhisattva »

tsmith wrote: post #152
kefka wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I noticed that. The question "if you got 100K for saving lil old woman", my choice wasn't there. Pay my debts.

Also missing: put it in the bank (i.e. do nothing). The answers to the "greatest satisfaction" question are also telling. They are all job/business related. There's not even a single "spend time with my friends and family" catch-all.

Yeah. Where's the "travel the world and live in a tent" option. My soul mate is definitely out there in a tent with mad cash in the bank watching a sunset from a mountain top.

Sigh

We'll never find each other unless s/he wanders into an internet cafe tomorrow before this rolls off of front page of HN...

Hurry soul mate! HURRY down the mountain!

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by dash2 »

Houshalter wrote: post #100
dash2 wrote: post #95

There is a widespread idea that the way to find true love is to spend all your effort searching for one optimal partner. Here is an alternative algorithm: spend some effort finding a good enough partner, and at least as much effort building a good relationship with him or her. I like this site: it shows the widespread idea in its purest form. Kind of a reductio ad absurdum.

How much effort does it take to answer 8 questions?

Not much, I did it myself! But the idea behind the site is "find that single unique person who is right for you" (one in 8^8 people). So it exemplifies the idea I was talking about.

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by rpwverheij »

nice idea. I stopped at the first question though. The answer that would correctly describe my average situation at a party involves a combination of 3 of the mentioned answers and probably 3 others that were not mentioned, so I doubt a test with 8 questions with each 8 answers can match me properly to someone that is very much like me.
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