wait... soulmates?
8^8 – Find another you
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Re: 8^8 – Find another you
#22I really like the concept, but I find the implementation disappointing.
I know it sounds dumb, but I think of myself as being a rather odd person, and not just like, collecting human skulls odd. It's hard to explain, but I don't feel that most people would get me, or like me once they got to know me. I'd love to find someone who's just like me (sometimes), so when I first clicked, I was a little excited, perhaps naively so. I was disappointed to find that it was just eight multiple-choice questions, many of which I had a hard time answering. There was no nuance.
Re: 8^8 – Find another you
#23Took quite a while due to the site crashing several times, but I finished it. I think of it as an interesting experiment - even if nothing ends up coming from it. My largest concern is there are about 3 questions where I was torn between two answers. I'm thinking I should create email addresses to "cover every base" by alternating my answers on those 3 questions in every permutation. On the other hand, I would feel a…
> On the other hand, I would feel a bit bad for using up some of the "freebies" that legitimate people might miss out on
I wonder what the legality of publishing their questions and answers are. If we can duplicate their questions and answers, people could find each other on twitter with a hashtag: #my8x8is{answer 1}{answer 2}...{answer 2}
Re: 8^8 – Find another you
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
It could be argued that certain types of people are more likely to exist and thus more are matched. EG: The very first question about what you do at a party. The "sit on the couch and observe" type of person is probably one of the more rare options than the "center of attention" or "dancing with people" or whatever other options there were (I forget the options I didn't pick myself) I'm not a party goer and there was…
Even then, it’s all the more important to find the questions with the highest entropy, given that you know someone’s already in a popular group. It’s all about evenly dividing the population based on important factors. Evenly dividing people is easy enough, and finding important factors is easy enough, but doing them both at the same time can be very tricky.
> Even then, it’s all the more important to find the questions with the highest entropy
Also see http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity for a discussion of information theory in identifying people.
Re: 8^8 – Find another you
#25The site operator may like to know that the site is probably blocked by many corporate proxies; certainly by mine, which categorizes it as
URL Category: "Malicious Outbound Data/Botnets"
Re: 8^8 – Find another you
#26If someone cloned me, I'm pretty sure one of us would murder the other one. Similar != compatible when it comes to humans.
Re: 8^8 – Find another you
#27"Take the 8^8 test and the likelihood of someone else answering in the exact same pattern as yourself is 1 in 16,777,216" That requires A) the distribution of answers is even across all 8 options, and B) there are zero correlations between any two answers in the quiz. Not to mention that the 8 questions have to pretty accurately split the space of human personalities down into eigen-answers that explain the most vari…
Simple stupid example. A lot more than 1/5 of the people would choose A for the following question:
How many people have you killed?
a) 0
b) 1-9
c) 10-99
d) 100-999
e) 1000 or more
Re: 8^8 – Find another you
#28Yeah, the site is painfully slow. A site with a multiple choice test should handle thousands of users at a time with a tiny server. How is this thing made?
Same here, got ERR_CONNECTION_RESET when trying to click next.
Re: 8^8 – Find another you
#29Slightly off topic, why so many links to 'juvenile' questions on HN?
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#30"Take the 8^8 test and the likelihood of someone else answering in the exact same pattern as yourself is 1 in 16,777,216" That requires A) the distribution of answers is even across all 8 options, and B) there are zero correlations between any two answers in the quiz. Not to mention that the 8 questions have to pretty accurately split the space of human personalities down into eigen-answers that explain the most vari…
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 those criteria (arbitrary, but 2^24 = 8^8) and find matches.
So basically, ask a whole bunch of binary questions, find ones with roughly 50-50 answers that don't correlate with each other, make the match-ups based on those and ignore the others.