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Seen on eHarmony:

Dr. Galen Buckwalter gbuckwalter@eharmony.com, the inventor of eHarmony’s matchmaking algorithm, will be available for a first-ever live chat next Wednesday at 1pm PST. Here’s the chance to ask your questions like,

1. Why am I being matched to dead profiles? Why won’t eHarmony show who is paid and who isn’t? How many days or weeks must a profile be inactive before the system pulls it off the matching pool?
2. Why won’t eHarmony show the date of last activity or last login of my matches?
3. Why do the ads and the test not say upfront that eHarmony rejects people?
4. eHarmony advertising is talking about marriage less and less, was the matching system adjusted also?
5. Is eHarmony Canada’s matching software identical to the main site?
6. Has eHarmony began doing/has done research on homosexual relationships? They CAN get married, you know.
7. Does the test still reject 20% of those who take it? Has this percentage gone up or down?
8. If I rate my matches (Match Rating), how soon will this improve the matches you send me? I see no improvement at all!
9. Does the system match on personal interests (Board Games, Church involvement, Conversation, Dining Out, etc.) — you asked them during the test — or is this just a sneaky way to gather marketing demographics for your advertisers?
10. If I sign in more often, will I get more matches? If I sign in LESS often, will I get less matches?
11. If I respond to matches quickly, will I get more matches? If I respond to matches SLOWLY, will I get less matches?
12. What are the most recent tweaks you made on the matching system?
13. On the shorter 250-item questionnaire, what happened to the Family Background dimension? … The test doesn’t ask it at all!
14. Does height matter? You got complaints about this. What’s the scoop?
15. If you don’t match on income, then why ask it in the test AND have it among the Match Flexibility settings?
16. You have Arab, Indian, Japanese and Korean as separate ethnicities, but what should people in the Middle-East (Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds and Persians), and Bangladeshis and Pakistanis (they are NOT Indians) choose?

Here’s the link to register: eHarmony Advice: Live Chat.

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