Way more interesting than your typical Tinder interaction! But the thing that bums me out is this: all my female clients who are on Tinder would likely dismiss this guy (I'm assuming he's a guy) as too geeky, even though they're geeky themselves and get frustrated by how boring and uncreative most Tinder messagers…

I'm an online dating coach, and I've been nudging my clients to use quirky photos for years. Nice to see a (smoking hot super brilliant redhead) data geek back me up, haha. http://theheartographer.com/the-mathematic… for more of my take if you wanna geek out about this further!

This cracks me up every year. I'm an online dating coach, and I definitely get a massive spike in business every January/February—it starts with resolutions and leads right up to Valentine's Day.

"Broke bitches swipe left" = actual LOL. Uncomfortably close to some of the terrible online dating messages my clients get, though.

I made the same comment, but it's still pending. High five, my nerdy friend. :)

Erm, I think you mean "vulpine." ^_^

I TOTALLY AGREE about the last experiment being the most interesting. It definitely has elements of icky, but if I can get y'all to focus on the useful parts: stop feeling like a prisoner to match percentage! I've been trying to convince my online dating clients to put less weight on that little number for SO LONG.…

My sense is that the bulk of these tiger pics are from some adventure travel in Thailand. NY may shut down local tigers, but we're still gonna keep seeing exotic animal pics—it kind of makes sense. It's perfect online dating shorthand for "I'm so quirky and fun and free spirited and also I have the disposable income…

I've been trying to find a legit MP3 of this to buy for years, ever since John Roderick mentioned it on an episode of Roderick on the Line. It's SO CATCHY! And I wish I could dance like that. :)

Totally. You got off easy, relatively speaking, and I'm glad. Thanks for the reply! Life is a mystery, haha.

Sorry I didn't see this sooner! I screwed around with it some more (and complained about it with friends of all ages/genders/orientations/marital stati). And you know what? The app DOESN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE IF YOU'RE ALREADY MARRIED. So not only is its core data set flawed, but it does a pretty shitty job of parsing the…

Ha! To be fair, I have to think I'm at least someone's very mediocre dating experience. I help people with online dating for a living now, but the only way I got into doing this was by doing a terrible job at online dating for many years. I had pictures that were inaccurate or old, and that made me look way hotter…

Haha, I married a guy I met online too, but hardly the first. It's been 7 (almost 8) years for us, too. Congrats, fellow person who still occasionally gets raised eyebrows!

I married the dude I met on Craigslist, and my ad made best-of. It's not ALL hookers and bots! (To be fair, though, it wasn't via *that* section... and I wouldn't advise my current clients to use CL. But it served its purposes in the early to mid 2000s!)

Yeah, yikes. I'm genuinely curious (because this is what I do for a living)—in hindsight, do you feel like there was anything about her profile or her in-person behavior that should or could have warned you that she was shady?

Did I mention it was weird? (Sorry, I just realized I used that phrase twice. Durr. Clearly that guy was right, eh? What an utter idiot. I must be.)

I'm an online dating coach now, and I only got into doing this by going on a TON of mediocre dates with a few really bad ones. I had pretty good judgment and tame experiences overall, but here's the worst:

Okay, so despite the shitty methodology and the weird judgy "but don't worry" clause and everything, it also fails to detect whether the person who takes the test is in fact already married.

I really love your capsy reaction, haha. This is SUCH UTTER CRAP—bless your friends and all, but haven't some of them made crazy-ass terrible life choices? I mean, I'm sure some of them also consider MY life choices to be terrible... because WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT PEOPLE. Special freakin' snowflakes with different…

There are things you learn, when you're a woman in the game industry, that do not appear in training manuals or HR handbooks: how to grit your teeth and keep your head down and keep moving; how not to be a buzzkill or a squeaky wheel; how to deflect without confronting. You learn the same lessons that women learn…