Nanaya uses the economic concept of utility to calculate the value of relationships.
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Editor’s note: An engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a girlfriend he loves deeply, but even though his girlfriend loves him deeply, she I’m not sure if I want to stay with him for a long time. So she joked that she could do a cost-benefit analysis of the relationship between the two parties. Rashied Amini took this seriously, and finally made a dating app that calculates and predicts the probability of pairing success. STEPHEN MARCHE reported on the Nanaya app and its founder. The original title is: A Rocket Scientist’s Love Algorithm Adds Up During Covid-19
Making key points:
Like designing a lunar base, romantic relationships must also solve the problem of uncertainty
Nanaya will provide customers with a report on their love opportunities, quantifying the multiple uncertainties of love
The questionnaire is the key to Nanaya
The isolation of the virus pandemic verifies the siege theory of marriage and love
Dating used to be, and probably always will be a game of stupid numbers: all you care about is height, weight, and money.
Before figuring out who you are looking for, you should first figure out who you are-this is not only a generally applicable good advice, but also especially important for dating
Online dating has soared, and more than half of users said they used dating apps more than before during the confinement period. While Covid-19 has put tremendous pressure on everyone’s relationships, it is also greatly accelerating the digital foundation of all relationships. Just as local companies swarmed on the delivery platform, and office buildings had to figure out the timing of the Zoom meeting, the hard reality of this disease has also pushed love in the direction it has already gone (completely online).
Online dating is both popular and unpopular. Before Covid, nearly a quarter of people in the United States had used online dating services, and nearly a third of them were young people. However, according to SurveyMonkey’s survey, 56% of adults have a more or less negative view of dating sites, while the proportion of women is slightly higher and that of men is slightly lower. The reason is that those apps are usually bad and don’t work properly. The field of online dating (despite its increasing dominance) is still very rough mathematically. Dating used to be, and probably always will be a game of stupid numbers: all you care about is height, weight, and money.
The proprietary algorithms that form the basis of most dating sites are naturally for matching. These algorithms can more or less determine how well you fit with other people, and then let you contact them. However, as people who have already experienced dozens of first dates have learned, how good the first date fits may not be an appropriate question. The appropriate question should be the utility of those encounters, and how close they are to what you are looking for. Compared to “How can I meet a partner who roughly matches me?”, here are some more appropriate questions: How do you know that you are in a suitable relationship? If the relationship between the two parties is not suitable, how can one find a suitable one?
How to improve the chance of finding love?
What will increase or decrease your chances of finding love? Amini replied that the answer is neither obvious nor intuitive. He said: “The average time that people stay single varies depending on their status and lifestyle. So, I asked users a question: How often do I take public transportation? I found that people who take public transportation more often People who don’t sit often build relationships within four months.“
Four months is already a significant increase in the value of relationship use. But this does not mean that if you are looking for love, you have to move to New York, because the number of potential partners and the sheer scale of choice will increase your time to find “that one.”The momentum may not lie in the algorithm, but in the process of questionnaire research. “Knowing yourself is really helpful. To be honest, this is one of the hardest places to ask someone on the Internet, What is a person’s self-awareness, or a person’s emotional intelligence?” That’s all The problem with the relational algorithm, and perhaps the problem with all relations. These are all based on everyone’s description of themselves. How reliable is this self-report?
Since Covid-19 has made everyone’s relationship digital first, the role of mathematics will become more important than ever. But there is no A/B test for romantic relationships. The value provided by Nanaya is a probability, not a fixed number. Among all major choices in life, choosing people is actually based on luck. You will never know whether your choice is correct. All you can get is the result.
Translator: boxi.