MIT article: How Tinder “Feedback Loop” Forces Men and Women into Extreme Strategies

[MatureDJ]

How Tinder “Feedback Loop” Forces Men and Women into Extreme Strategies

The first study of swiping strategies on Tinder shows just how different male and female mating behavior can be.

www.technologyreview.com

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

First, remove the most important variable

We emphasize that our study is not intended to measure attributes like beauty or attraction,”

Another potential study error

Men tend to pick up matches slowly over time, while women gain matches quickly, achieving more than 200 matches in the first hour.

This is either due to the massive amount of thirsty dudes, OR tinder pushing females as soon as they create an account, to encourage them to keep feeding the thirsty dudes. Which means MIT is flying blind if they don't see the business angle driving the tinder algorithm.

Then there's this:


But curiously, the vast proportion of matches came from men, whether for the team’s male or female profiles. “Even though the male:female ratio in our dataset is roughly even, on average, 86% of all the matches our male profiles receive come from other men,” say Tyson and co.

This suggests that homosexual men play an important role on Tinder. “Homosexual men are far more active in liking than heterosexual women,” say the team.

The solution is obvious. If you want to clean up on tinder, switch teams.

 

[SW15]

Old article. Tinder's algorithm has changed a lot since the study was done in 2015-16.

In the early days on Tinder, you could swipe right on mostly everything, unmatch the unattractive people who you matched with, and be assured of some days with at least the cute population. No longer. The algo would punish you for that today.

Tinder is a waste now with the being an overwhelming sausage fest. I've read that 76% of active members on Tinder now are men. That's going to lead to few matches and few dates for men.