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I love the idea!

I love the idea! The "non-optimal" (location & time based) way of finding the people you spend your time with can be quite frustrating, if you think about it. I'm happy to have a great people around me, but why not meet more interesting people? But, as others already pointed out, there are some problems with the current version: * one could prefer multiple answers on some questions. I think that the test should allow for multiple answers and use ML/statistics to find close/closest matches. Using True/False (exact match) may not be the best. The "workaroud" would be to take several tests with all the permutations, but IMO that is a design flaw. * the questions may not be the best. This is an interesting problem - how can we pick questions/attributes that would be a good "model" of human personality/mind/psychology? * such test need to reach a lot of people and it may take a long time. Therefore, it needs to be done _right_ from the beginning, so that all the people take the same test. Again - I love the concept and I'm glad that somebody it taking the time and effort to build this. IMO this has the potential to influence who you spend your time/life with - so it's very important to do this well.

Posted by iyn on May 15, 2015, 8:42 PM

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I love the idea!

iynMay 15, 2015, 8:42 PM

I love the idea! The "non-optimal" (location & time based) way of finding the people you spend your time with can be quite frustrating, if you think about it. I'm happy to have a great people around me, but why not meet more interesting people? But, as others already pointed out, there are some problems with the current version: * one could prefer multiple answers on some questions. I think that the test should allow for multiple answers and use ML/statistics to find close/closest matches. Using True/False (exact match) may not be the best. The "workaroud" would be to take several tests with all the permutations, but IMO that is a design flaw. * the questions may not be the best. This is an interesting problem - how can we pick questions/attributes that would be a good "model" of human personality/mind/psychology? * such test need to reach a lot of people and it may take a long time. Therefore, it needs to be done _right_ from the beginning, so that all the people take the same test. Again - I love the concept and I'm glad that somebody it taking the time and effort to build this. IMO this has the potential to influence who you spend your time/life with - so it's very important to do this well.

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