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0 pointsNumberCruncher4y ago0 comments

> Tinder has an incentive to keep the paid users paid my making sure it is difficult for them to find a match

An evil data scientist would put almost exclusively users on your screen who you are interested in but they are not interested in you to boost your spendings and would mix a small portion of good bidirectional matches just to make his purpose less obvious. Fortunately evil data scientists does not exist... I mean I definitely wasn't paid to do anything like that. Never.

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jliptzin4y ago

They don’t even have to be doing that on purpose, if one just optimizes the revenue per user metric he’s effectively doing the same thing even if not on purpose.

Ensorceled4y ago

It's ever better if you use some type of AI for this, then no one "knows" that are actually doing that.

NumberCruncherOP4y ago

"I didn't do it on purpose" and "no one knew what we are actually doing". I gonna call it the "data scientist's switchblade...

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