Tag: Relationships

  • The data science of chores

    The Difference Between a Happy Marriage and Miserable One: Chores Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, & Thomas N. Bradbury, theatlantic.com Couples who don’t have a system for household tasks can get really resentful, really quickly. A look at the results of an in-depth study of middle-class families. Between 2001 and 2004, a team of UCLA researchers…

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  • HowAboutWe: accidental anthropologists capitalize on the principle of homophily in online dating

    Recently social data science has found fertile new ground in the booming field of online dating. By tweaking algorithms to increase the likelihood of a match, many online dating sites are becoming defacto behavioral science labs, constantly analyzing what makes people want to hang out, or start a relationship. Now along comes another company that…

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  • Matchmaking takes a high tech approach

    Matchmaking takes a high tech approach – The Boston Globe. High tech meets cross cultural reality: biodata approaches take tradition family based decisions about marriage which account for education, income, genes, background, occupation, and interests and were once decided by families Related articles Traditional Matchmaking Goes On-Line With the First of its Kind Hosted Video…

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