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Dating Website eHarmony's Ad Banned For Claiming Service Is 'Scientifically Proven' (bbc.com)
A dating website's claim that it used a "scientifically proven matching system" to pair up those looking for love, has been banned. From a report: An advert for eHarmony on the London Underground in July read: "It's time science had a go at love." The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) called the claim "misleading." The online matchmaker said while it "respectfully disagrees" with the ruling, it will make its advertising "as clear as possible." The website was unable to offer the ASA any evidence that customers had a greater chance of finding love, despite claiming that its "scientifically proven matching system decodes the mystery of compatibility and chemistry." "Imagine being able to stack the odds of finding lasting love entirely in your favour," the advert read.
What is "science", anyway?.. Vague terminology..
If I go a few days with out getting any responses, I'll end up getting 3 to 5 responses that take a few days to figure out that they are fake responses. It will be just enough to keep you paying for the service.
That is where the science is, in keeping gullible guys paying for a service that they want to believe that there are women out there that want more than just money.
Captcha: Immature.
There woudn't be hoards of nerd virgins, and Slashdot would probably not exist as people would be too busy getting laid to use it.
scientifically proven matching system decodes the mystery of compatibility and chemistry
Of course eHarmony couldn't provide scientific evidence to back up it's claims. The claims are so over the top that it would be expected no reasonable person would believe they actually had scientists applying scientific methods to the match-making algorithm. This should have been a clear and obvious case of mere puffery.
Of course, people can be pretty stupid so maybe eHarmony had been defrauding a significant percentage of the British population. God help us all.
I have never tried eHarmony. But I did meet my girlfriend of the past 6 years on OK cupid.
I am planning to ask her to marry me in the spring.
But I would hardly call online dating websites scientific. I would say it comes down more to luck, and both of us being honest with what we wanted.
First law of people: People are generally stupid.
It's just like saying "Global Warming" is "scientific". LOL.
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Eons ago, during a period where I was on the market, I tried making an eHarmony account. They rejected/banned me right off the bat without explaining why. Something about the answers I gave during the lengthy profile creation process caused them to give up on me with no explanation, and no recourse. Just basically, "we can't help you, go away".
Match.com was useless since both parties had to be paying members in order to send/receive messages. A rather broken and pointless model as it leads to an EXTREMELY limited pool. So I didn't bother.
OKCupid was and remains free. Met my current partner there and we've been together 5+ years now.
I think most people understood that this was their attempt at trying to make it work, and only vaguely scientific. Basically they are trying to say they have a better algorithm. However, the commercials really do amp up how they break down the answers and questions and results, and match on all sorts of data points, etc etc so I can understand that the regulators would say 'hey, take it down a notch'.
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Sounds like the person she should have killed is you though. Shame that post birth abortions aren't legal....
Listen, im all for bashing chris. But you are just going too far. If he posts an affiliate link or the old classic one line post, then flame em, but please let's not start the convo out about chris. He doesn't deserve that much credit.
Thanks boys, keep up the good work tho.
I tried several web sites, and went to lunch with dozens of women. eHarmony was the worst of the bunch, in my experience. Mate1 was my favorite.
eHarmony always wanted to match me with women a thousand miles away.
I went out with a lot of women because I was looking for a very special lady, a one-in-a-million. I did end up finding the love of my life, on mate1.
Will she be legal then? (kidding)
It seems to me that after 6 years together there is no good reason to wait.
You scientifically blow dudes lol.
If you don't, I'm going to grab you by the pussy.
MAGA
Now it's "meh"
But back in the day when your information was coded onto a Hollerith card, stacked with the other shlubs, and loaded into hopper on the card reader, now that was sexy.
An IBM System 360 with tape drives spinning and lights blinking, you just knew it would find the perfect match. Scientifically, of course.
And the the hope and anticipation while waiting for your own personalized printout on green bar 15 inch wide pulp paper was half the fun.
The issue here is an interesting one: Is secret science still science?
If I follow the scientific process, do an experiment, validate my results, etc., but don't publish the results, an I say I've done something scientifically? Or is public scrutiny an intrinsic part of science?
Should have called it AI dating, with blockchained dating histories. Stock prices would have quadrupled at least.
No one wants to date your mother.
What is science?
Well, don't ask the superstitious cluetards who run eHarmony, who think "god" is a real thing sans any evidence at all. That place is a black hole for idiocy, always has been.
Where the hell are the 99.8% jokes at?!
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So this is an admission that your only interest in slashdot is to spam?
You want people from slashdot to participate in your youtube channel and other places off site?
You must be new around here. Creimer has been drawing off traffic from Slashdot for decades.
I read at -1. I don't click your links.
Everyone has to be a special snowflake these days.
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Decades of work for 692 channel views in total. Truly Creimer is a business genius and social media visionary.
More people step in dog shit every day than view your atrocious "videos", Chris.
And those are the lucky ones!
Your latest video literally has less than 10 views. WTF Chris you have to realize this isnâ(TM)t going to earn you a single dollar.
Still better than your mother ... mother.
It's a good thing you're not a snowflake, huh Chris? I don't think they make roofs that can withstand 380 pound snowflakes.
"Imagine being able to stack the odds of finding lasting love entirely in your favour," the advert read."
May the odds be ever in your favor! Wait... where have I heard that before?
"He took a duck in the face at 250 knots." -- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
He made a dime on that video. His most popular video has 4,500+ views and made him $4.50. That's assuming a $1 CPM.
If that's true, I'm filming myself walking to the store, then putting overly-loud generic royalty-free music over it.
Creimer, have you actually seen the money? Don't forget Youtube splits about 50% of it. Also, with a CPM of a dollar, your fountain video would make you 1 penny. My Youtube channel (where I am not trying to make money or get followers, I just post random stuff occasionally) has 50,000 views, and of course I haven't earned any money. What you're doing is just not going to work.
If you want to make money with Youtube, go on to r/Fitness and r/RelationshipAdvice and start posting, giving lots of advice and claiming to be an expert. Post vlogs too, and vlog responses to you. Maybe you will become a popular troll. Being a punching bag is really the only thing you're good at.
Maybe you can shave the QR code of that URL in the back of your Yeti-like head, Chris. You'll get more traffic than you get here.
When asked for proof, starting a sentence with "Imagine..." is when healthy people get Tourettes seizures.
Apparently many /. readers are unaware of eHarmony's unique scientific background. It is based upon the work of Dr. Neil Clark Warren, who holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Warren studied marriages and realized that there were key elements that produced success (or failure).
He then backed this knowledge into relationship teachings, and later created eHarmony. See Wikipedia for the details. So yes, his approach is based on actual psychology and research vs. the others, who simply connect people and let them do the work. [Full disclosure: I have no connection to eHarmony and have never used it, I'm just familiar with how it came to be.]
Data science really can't improve on the dead on accuracy that is fate.
No, a china doll is definitely perferable to a mexican mamacita.
For one thing, any offspring of the relationship with the china doll will have higher IQ and better impulse control than if you were to breed with a mexican.
You made $75 over three years? So you made basically no money?
To me, having only made $75 in three years is a very good reason to stop making Youtube videos.
Why do you bother? Surely you don't enjoy taking videos of fountains and then doing all the editing?
What do you hope to get out of this?
If creimer wanted to make money, he would have picked something other than PM. That specialized niche requires putting skin in the game. In particular, he bought 100+ ounces of silver each year.
That doesn't really answer the question: why are you so intent on making Youtube videos when you are making essentially no money off of them and you surely don't find them enjoyable to make? Videos of fountains, WTF?
Your brag about buying silver is weird, and not just because it's completely irrelevant. Googling, 100 oz is only like $1700. It's also a very bad investment...silver is basically unchanged after three years, while a simple entire-market-index-fund has gone up about 30% in the last three years. And that's not even counting that the commission to buy and sell silver is huge, while the commission to buy and sell index funds is about zero. So in the end, silver could go up a good amount and you would be doing a lot better if you had just stuffed the cash in your sock drawer.
Do you see now why studying Slashdot's only megamammal is so fascinating? You should have seen the non-sequitur replies back in his "low carb diet" days! He's the only lifeform in the universe capable of gaining weight on a low-carb diet!
I saw this ad on a train in the UK a few weeks ago and couldn't believe they were actually making such a claim. Glad someone is awake at the advertising standards agency!
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Alternatively they will continue to use statistics to prove almost anything they want, and then try to convince the public that science proves two that people are right for each other. That statistical correlation they offer to the "honest" answers to metaphysical questions, plus an advanced degree in alchemy, will guarantee you live happily ever after.
Yea, right. I bow in the presence of the deity of statistics. Anyone have a bridge for sale? Its "scientifically proven", by statistical correlation, that the more high dollar things I own the richer I will be.
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They "respectfully disagree" with the ASA's claim that the ad is misleading in its claim of being a "scientifically proven matching system" (it actually uses that phrase on the ad), but they're unable to show any documentation that their claim is truthful? So they're respectfully disagreeing to being called out for lying when they're outright lying?
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"I've already completed 2 entire marriages!"... for some reason I translated that into a video game experience and saw the old xbox Achievement Unlocked popup come up in my mind lol!
I love that creimer is in this thread talking minute details of his life like we're not supposed to know it's him.
I can already hear you whining: it's dirty junk silver that I'll have to sell back at melt price instead of getting 30%+ ROI on premiums.
No you can't because I don't care about that stupid shit. Have you noticed that most youtubers who are wrapped up in this stupid game are hot married girls or guys who live in shitty trailers? They are in situations where your rent check alone could sustain their lifestyle. All of these scams fall flat on their face because of where you live.
I know you won't listen but as FCLM said, it's entertaining to poke a hole to reality and watch you paste it over with a fresh coat of delusions,
So you're saying your hobby is playacting businessman? cool. Wanna start a LARP group?
One million YouTube content creators are either "hot married girls or guys who live in shitty trailers". Who knew?
Could be worse. Everyone could be Logan Paul on YouTube.
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Casey Neistat is successful. The Paul brothers are a joke.
Are you down to one noxious, foul ASCII emanation a day now?
YEEHAW!!!!
You build a business around YouTube.
But you don't have a business. Your money comes from your work, and then on the side you make small change from Amazon link spam, Youtube videos, Old lottery tickets, and EBooks.
There is simply no business that is going to be helped by posting videos of fountains that get only 10 views.
I'm thinking about doing the same for Silicon Valley. Most videos about Silicon Valley is about technology and people. Very few are about Silicon Valley as a place and I know the local landmarks.
Maybe there's a subculture of people who care about historic buildings or technological headquarters (subjects that are already covered), but nobody cares about some mall fountain.
I guess you weren't around for the Great Recession when the stock market dropped 50%
Silver shot up and went down 700% a decade ago...it's even more vulnerable to speculation. In the 70s/80s, two brothers tried to corner the silver market. Stocks go up and down, but there's nothing as crazy as that.
And not trusting an investment unless it's something you can physically touch is the product of being a simple mind. I suppose if society crashes and we go back to living in a "Conan the Barbarian" universe, old coins will be more valuable than bits in a bank's computer. But if society collapses, the 400 pound fat men of the world are fucked. In the meantime, just buying your coins one day and selling your coins the next means you lose large amounts of money. You're better off just going to Vegas than buying old coins.
Making youtube videos for cash as a thinned skinned late middle aged man with a bad personality, all while you live in silicon valley and neglect your IT career is unbelievably fucking stupid.
Chris, there are many people who make youtube content for a significant part of their income. Most of these people are in positions where they don't require lots of extra income. Such as stay at home wives and people with inexpensive living arrangements.
Do you not understand what I said or did you pretend to be dumb so you could make a rebuttal?
Google image "Youtube personality" it's all hot young girls, with the exception of onison and pewdiepie who are both attractive males.
Onison found accidental success on youtube shortly after being kicked out of the military, he had no career or better options and he got extremely lucky.
PewDiePie *enjoys* making online content and became a success on youtube after he burned out of his boring yet prestigious college program.
Then there are the multitude of much less popular fat ugly guys with somewhat popular youtube channels on various niche subjects. This seems to be who you want to be. Except these guys all have good personalities and inexpensive living situations. Look in the background they always have shitty houses.
Finally I'd like to point out that when people with your limited interpersonal skills get any measure of success on youtube they attract lots and lots and lots of trolls. These youtube celebrity internet personalities with personal brands have sold off any protections they have against harassment and stalking, seeing as how you cry like a baby when people google you and your employer wants you to maintain a low profile.... and you're making less off this shit than you would a paper route.
Making you tube videos for cash being a thinned-skinned late middle-aged man with a bad-personality, all while you live in silicon-valley and neglect your IT career is unbelievably-fucking-stupid.
"YouTube is a platform for building an audience for my side business."
And after ten years you built an audience of 6 subscribers.
"You don't make money on YouTube. "
Boring 400 pound virgins with personality disorders don't.
"I'm still experimenting with the content. "
How much more time do you have left? A video of drying paint got more views in one hour than you got in your entire career.
"Very few are about Silicon Valley as a place and I know the local landmarks."
Yeah like which bus stops have the best lottery tickets on the ground and which garbage cans have the best Panda Express leftovers.
"I guess you weren't around for the Great Recession when the stock market dropped 50%"
That's when you buy, you doof. That's not when you sign documents with "secret business partners" to start a failing business with people even loonier than you. And then go bankrupt.
"and took nearly a decade to recover that."
That decade is now. If you had bought in 2008 you wouldn't be scrambling for pocket change and taking the bus in 2018.
" There's a reason why precious metals in physical form are called hard savings."
Yeah, because it's hard to save with them. What are you going to do with silver if society collapses, fat man? Start a werewolf killing silver bullet business?
I guess you weren't around for the Great Recession when the stock market dropped 50% and took nearly a decade to recover that.
You must be fucking kidding the recession was 2007 - 2010 the stock market didn't crash until 2008 and was more or less normal by 2010. What you mean is that the dow never hit it's inflated 2007 all time high until like 2012.
Gold on the other hand nearly lost half it's value in 6 years and then resumed it's life as a boring as fuck investment as most precious metals usually are. Looking at the chart it seems that gold has been a poor investment compared to the dow for the entire time span since your bankruptcy.
Before you sperg off into some precious metal nonsense about melting down guldens and bicentennial quarters or some other bullshit... let's apply a simple heuristic here. Do you think that investment shows on fox news are for real investors? Of course not. They're for crazy hicks. What are the commercials for? Precious metals.
[...] but nobody cares about some mall fountain.
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The funny thing is, being old, fat, gray haired and being named Reimer doesn't prevent people from succeeding.
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What's your excuse, Chris?
I mean you could make a video of you holding a guitar called "Classical Gas" of you farting the Panda Express menu, that would get quite a few views.
Especially if you could manage a nice little curtsy at the end.
" for my side business"
Speaking of which... Your ebook "unemployable" has been delayed YET AGAIN to April 1 2018! What happened to January 1 2018? Which was also a delayed date....
Your procrastination and unrealistic ambitions are going to come crashing around your fat ears one of these days... And I'll be watching the news that day for the inevitable mass shooting.