Are you on Tinder desirable …? To find out, the engineers of the application (iOS, Android) online dating have developed an algorithm which notes users. A system for creating a scale, the most “desirable” person at least “desirable”. The goal: to encourage meetings equivalents profiles.
Obviously, the algorithm is secret and no user-at least for the moment- can know his score, or the criteria used. But in an interview with the specialized site Fastcompagny.com , Sean Rad, CEO of Tinder and several engineers Californian company have nevertheless agreed to explain the outline.
A score “Elo”, like chess or video games
The algorithm would therefore have an operation similar to that ranking “Elo” a evaluation system that chess players, the game of go or competitive online video games know well. It is to assign a score to each player in the same competition. Depending victories or defeats, this score rises or falls. The scale of notes thus obtained can facilitate meetings between players of the same level and it weights the ranking points gained or lost depending on the opponent’s score. Clearly, if a low Elo player wins against a player with an excellent rating, it will gain even more points.
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What this could lead to “the game” of seduction Tinder, that only allows to upload profile -some very refined pictures and information about your work and your studies? Your Elo score is largely due to the number of “swipe right” -function for “love” and profil- a “swipe left” -function for zapper- obtained. .
What Chris Dumler, an engineer at Tinder, called a “huge voting system Whenever you like or zap a profile, what you express fundamentally is: ‘This person is more desirable than -ci, “he explains.
“Some like user photos with a tiger”
Should we conclude that as the algorithm is nothing more that a robot that ranks you based on criteria of beauty of the community of Tinder, pushing users to submit their best and even cheat with their photos? CEO Sean Rad, anticipating criticism, wishes to emphasize to the American newspaper that his system “does not measure the desirability but the beauty.” The algorithm “is very complicated. It took us two and half months to create it because there are many factors that are taken into account,” he added. Which ones?
“If you ‘like’ profile, this may be because the person attracts you physically, or because the -description profile, career, studies- is really good,” suggests Chris engineer Dumler. Also imagine that the message exchange (and their numbers) made possible by a “match” -when two people love each other they must climb profil- this score. Just as being “liked” by a person with a “Elo” higher than you should you win points.
No blah-blah or extension profile , Tinder is all about the visual. A photo please? Simply click.
Tinder
But the image remains the main criterion. “Users are really polarized on the photos,” says Tor Solli-Nowlon, another engineer, Tinder, which explains in substance that Elo ranking Tinder is done on several levels: “Some users strongly favor those with facial hair is high the other not. Same with tattoos, photos with pets or children, photos taken outside may appeal to some, like a photo of you with a tiger. ”
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A picture of you doing the diving could therefore appeal to some people because ” they think you’re a (an) adventurer (e), others because they are just curious and want to discover the face behind the mask. “There is no universal criterion of beauty” defends the engineer in the American Journal.
The spread of notation, Airbnb Uber
If the fact that this algorithm class users based on their appearance, what may be his subtleties may shock some, it is not surprising however. Today, almost all online applications use a similar process. On the Uber, users can record their races … As drivers can record their passengers. On Airbnb, travelers can in turn assign (or not) of their host star. Not to mention fire peeple, the application that had “noted people,” good or bad, for better and certainly for worse.
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And about the fact that the algorithm remains secret Tinder … journalist FastCompany has understood the interest once its note “slightly above average” was revealed to him by Tinder. Trying to learn more, he has been confronted with a categorical refusal of the engineer, assuring him that there was “information that really would not know.” Also imagine if the details of the operation of the algorithm were revealed, many people would try to take advantage. Contacted by The Express, Tinder has not answered our questions.
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