While catching up on Cecil Adams’s The Straight Dope column recently, I found his explanation why the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is so damn famous and so damn useless.
Does the Myers-Briggs personality assessment really tell you anything?
The eHarmony Personality Profile (regular or Premium) uses the older Five Factor Model, not the MBTI.
(Cecil Adams’s nationally-syndicated column “The Straight Dope” answers reader-submitted questions about arcane and unusual topics. The column has been syndicated in 30 newspapers since 1973.)
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I took Sociology 101 in university and never liked it.
eHarmony Labs (and subsequently the official blog) shared this week the findings of four University of California Berkeley (UCB) psychology majors of their study on the “Relative Importance of Physical Attractiveness on Initial Attractiveness and Dating Online“.
The Labs piece, “A picture in your profile might get you a date, but not a relationship!” reads like a rebuttal to last month’s OKCupid Blog piece on the 4 myths of profile photos that was featured on the New York Times two weeks ago. The Labs piece reads like a half-baked “Hey, here’s proof that good photos don’t matter in a long-term-relationship dating site.”
I reviewed these students’ findings and, funny, I came up with different conclusions: Continue Reading »
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No matter how awful the service or the matching gets, one eHarmony feature will always make me an eHarmony fan.
It’s the five canned multiple choice questions.
Nowhere else is it accepted and expected that the first communication to a match (from me to her, or from her to me) is the two clicks of sending the five multiple choice questions.
I can initiate contact with a hundred matches in three minutes.
Elsewhere, I have to read the profile, draw a conversational topic, watch my spelling and grammar, avoid cliches, have something interesting to ask — FOR EACH PERSON.
Winks are universally ignored.
After all that work elsewhere, only a handful will reply.
It’s not my fault or is there anything I can do about it, because all dating sites have mostly inactive accounts. She’s seeing someone already. It’s a fake profile. She lost her password. My message went to her spam folder. She got 20 emails today.
Free dating sites are not that different. The reasons have nothing to do with having a subscription.
I’d rather shine my About Me answers…, and initiate contact with a hundred matches in three minutes.
So, gentlemen, vote for eHarmony in 2010.
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(“Love can be interpreted in everything, if your mind is available to look for it.”)
A steadfast romantic at 84, a former Scarborough alderman is using a bygone form to convey his passion to a younger woman. `He is a beautiful person,’ Lady M. says
Every morning, after he shaves, combs back his romantically long white hair and makes coffee in the percolator, Bill Belfontaine, former Scarborough alderman and controller, sits before his computer and writes a love poem.
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Here is a good approximation of what happens on a good eHarmony first date.
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In this week’s Wall Street Journal article, eHarmony notes that “site traffic may not correspond to user registrations, which [eHarmony] says were up 20% in the first five months (January to May) of this year from a year earlier.”
That same WSJ article shows a comScore chart that eHarmony site traffic dropped 33.5% from 2.524 million in January to 1.826 million in May, falling each and every month.
What does this mean? eHarmony is a ghost town now, with enormously more and more cardboard cut-outs as members. How sad.
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The Myers-Briggs personality test is only an obsolete ipsative test, like the other famous ipsative test DISC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISC_assessment The Big5 inventory / Five Factor Model is a normative test, as the 16PF5. http: …
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