I met my wife via a blind date set up by a friend. No dating algorithm would have ever put us together. However, I think people do get too wrapped up in superficial likes / dislikes as a filtering mechanism, when it's been my experience that those on the surface things really have little correlation with you who might end up with long term.
So "forcing" people to get to know each other by actually meeting might have some value here.
However, I think people do get too wrapped up in superficial likes / dislikes as a filtering mechanism
And the nature of dating sites is to foreground this method of "analyzing" potential dates, which I think has to be a huge weakness in the whole model. This is to say, it's the only thing people can do on these sites.
