WASHINGTON POST — June 1 — eHarmony operates on the theory that partners need to share certain key characteristics to better their chances of a successful long-term relationship. We caught up with Gonzaga to talk about that theory and what he has learned about love during his tenure at eHarmony.
Q: What are the core qualities partners should share if they want their love to last?
A: The big ones are personality traits. Things like how agreeable you are, how open you are to experience.
Q: Why does it matter so much that couples share these traits?
A: If you are similar to someone, it’s a lot easier to understand what it is they’re thinking.
A: Over the long haul if somebody’s really radically different, and they see the world in a different way, it’s going to be difficult to negotiate those things again and again and again.
Q: You just launched Compatible Partners. Do the same requirements for shared characteristics apply?
A: We think so. So right now we’re moving on the assumption that the same kinds of models are going to apply well, and then over time we’ll work on that model to tailor it as best as possible.
Q: Any surprises in your four years at the love lab?
A: In 2005 we found that there were 90 people a day who got married off of eHarmony. And two years later, it turns out 236 people a day got married or 44,000 couples a year.
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“In 2005 we found that there were 90 people a day who got married off of eHarmony. And two years later, it turns out 236 people a day got married or 44,000 couples a year.”
Which are the divorce rates of those couples married by eHarmony after 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. years of marriage?
eHarmony should prove its matching algorithm can match persons who will have more stable and satisfying relationships than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one’s own, or other technique as the control group in a peer_reviewed Scientifc Paper.
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
“In 2005 we found that there were 90 people a day who got married off of eHarmony. And two years later, it turns out 236 people a day got married or 44,000 couples a year.”
Which are the divorce rates of those couples married by eHarmony after 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. years of marriage?
eHarmony should prove its matching algorithm can match persons who will have more stable and satisfying relationships than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one’s own, or other technique as the control group in a peer_reviewed Scientifc Paper.
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
I expected Fernando to tell us why 44,000 couples per year is impossible. The numbers just seem too outrageously high. Fernando?
I expected Fernando to tell us why 44,000 couples per year is impossible. The numbers just seem too outrageously high. Fernando?
– From eHarmony Success Stories, “On average, 236 eHarmony Members Marry Every Day”
236 eHarmony Members Marry Every Day is the conclusion from a survey/poll conducted by Harris Interactive Research.
* Harris Interactive administered an online survey to 7,135 respondents between the ages of 20 and 54 who were married between April 1, 2006 and March 31, 2007.
* Harris Interactive determined that the incidence of marriages resulting from use of eHarmony was 2.57% in that sample.
* Based on the United States Census 2000 figures, it is estimated that eHarmony introductions resulted in 43,051 marriages in the year ending March, 2007.
* With 86,102 eHarmony users calculated to have married in the year ending March, 2007, it can be summarized that, on average, 236 eHarmony users marry every day.
One can not question the validity of the survey, but you can question if those couples married by eHarmony will have a more stable and satisfying marriage, and very low divorce rates than other couples married by other methods as the control group.
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
– From eHarmony Success Stories, “On average, 236 eHarmony Members Marry Every Day”
236 eHarmony Members Marry Every Day is the conclusion from a survey/poll conducted by Harris Interactive Research.
* Harris Interactive administered an online survey to 7,135 respondents between the ages of 20 and 54 who were married between April 1, 2006 and March 31, 2007.
* Harris Interactive determined that the incidence of marriages resulting from use of eHarmony was 2.57% in that sample.
* Based on the United States Census 2000 figures, it is estimated that eHarmony introductions resulted in 43,051 marriages in the year ending March, 2007.
* With 86,102 eHarmony users calculated to have married in the year ending March, 2007, it can be summarized that, on average, 236 eHarmony users marry every day.
One can not question the validity of the survey, but you can question if those couples married by eHarmony will have a more stable and satisfying marriage, and very low divorce rates than other couples married by other methods as the control group.
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com