Nice way to build a profile of a bunch of email addresses which will then be quite valuable for targeted marketing campaigns.
Damn... lol
8^8 – Find another you
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#112There seems to be an awful lot of gratuitous negativity going on here. The site was on Reddit yesterday, now it's on the front page of HN. Maybe the author can't throw a lot of resources at it, or they used the project as an excuse to learn a new stack. Who knows. Maybe it was slow for you. Maybe it's not a mathematically sound idea. Maybe the questions aren't ideal. The CAPTCHA isn't ideal. Who cares? There's no nee…
Likewise, who cares if people openly express their opinions on it, even if you think it sounds harsh?
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#113After 5 attempts, I made it. Out of 17.5k test takers, no matches yet? Birthday paradox be damned.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even distribution is just important for doing it in as few questions as possible. If you want to do it in 8, and cover 16M distinct personalities, you're gonna need them to be very evenly distributed. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_%28information_theory%2... Information gain is maximized when the distribution is even. Imagine a very extreme biased form of this where everyone answers the same way to a…
There have been 0 matches with over 12,000 tests. Assuming their claim of 1/1,000~ is anywhere near remotely true - then you may have increased your chances of finding a 'good match' tenfold already with the assumption that matches will be good (there is of course the chance they won't be) The Myers-Briggs places weight on questions to give one of the 16 personality types made of 8 traits. For example, one answer mig…
>There have been 0 matches with over 12,000 tests.
I really don't believe their number of matches. Why... We're on the Internet, it's full of trolls.
I'm sure any number of people will have taken the test at two different locations and answered the questions the same, just to get a match.
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#115After 5 attempts, I made it. Out of 17.5k test takers, no matches yet? Birthday paradox be damned.
I don't believe their no matches counter. We're on the Internet. The first thing some Redditor or 4chan'er did was take the test from two different places and answer the questions the same way.
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#1169,945 people have taken the test according to the stats at the bottom, and the site's painfully slow. Definitely needs some performance tweaking.
It didn't work for me. It can't handle the spike in traffic right now that it reached the front page, that's probably what's going on.
Or its just badly developed. I hit question 4 and it failed.
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#117FYI, email address validation doesn't support new gTLDs.
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#118I was thinking about how fast it would be to find matches, so I wrote a little C program that runs in about 1/7th a second: https://gist.github.com/robert-wallis/b7faf94976b153923fde
It generates a random number, then tries 8^8 times to generate a new random number and find a match.
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#119At a party you...
...listen in fear at the sounds of people who enjoy other people, observe small material details as though you were an anthropologist encountering alien beings, depend on searching for beer to consume time, and occasionally find someone who is amused by your off-kilter humor, but who ultimately is not really anyone you're likely to form a meaningful sober bond with?
Oh, apparently I have to actually be remotely ok in social settings. Seriously, what the fuck.
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#120At a party you... ...listen in fear at the sounds of people who enjoy other people, observe small material details as though you were an anthropologist encountering alien beings, depend on searching for beer to consume time, and occasionally find someone who is amused by your off-kilter humor, but who ultimately is not really anyone you're likely to form a meaningful sober bond with? Oh, apparently I have to actually…
yeah. About six of the eight questions offered no selection that was in any way a meaningful answer for me. So apparently this matching algorithm it going to find that one in sixteen million person that randomly selected six out of eight answers the same, and completely agrees with me on two points.
The point is that, like many polls, the questions are very leading, and take a distinctly biased approach. For example, the question about what to take away that would change who you are. The options are all very idealized, and sound like they come off a dating website (ok..., maybe that what this intends to be.) Almost none of the possible answers seem likely to be an answer in keeping with the "being honest" directive. If the question was more of "what is your idealized opinion of yourself" it might have a real answer.