READ/WRITE BLOG — Oct 4 —del.icio.us will essentially turn into a social network, with more focus on people instead of data. The CEO recently stated, "I want to help people connect with others within the system, either to people they already know or discovering new people and communities based on interest."
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Mark Brooks: Next – del.icio.us to offer personality profiling matchmaking based on bookmarks
“to offer personality profiling matchmaking based on bookmarks”
Not a good idea at all!!!
There are two well_identified steps:
1) Personality measurement/evaluation/assessment of a person.
2) To determine/establish the compatibility of a person with prospective mates.
STEP 1)
Personality profiling by music preferences, video preferences, color preferences, bookmarks preferences, handwriting analysis and more: Terrible lack of precision by distortion!!!
See
http://www.deweycolorsystem.com validated by http://www.iknowsys.org
You can see the validation whitepaper at:
http://www.iknowsys.org/?page_name=dewey
http://www.deweycolorsystem.com/credentials/PDFS/DCS_23.pdf
It is interesting to see how that color method used to evaluate personality ADDS DISTORTION to the measurement (page 07 and figure 2 continued of whitepaper)
Far better: to drink from the source, the 16PF5 test in different languages!!!
http://www.16pfworld.com/languages.html
The report looks like this: http://www.16pfworld.com/pdf/english-us.pdf
STEP 2)
A reliable/high_precision fully automated method / matching_algorithm to assign a compatibility index between prospective mates. The main matching equation CANNOT be only a simple/multiple linear regression equation!!!
Some Relationship Researchers
* found that many persons opted for sameness more often than chance would predict,
* believe that actual similarity and perceived similarity in demographics, attitudes, values, attractiveness and personality traits correlate with attraction
BUT
* it seems that what is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy.
http://mb.internetdatingconference.com/scientific-papers-t395.html
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com