Monster Match, a game funded by Mozilla, shows how dating app algorithms reinforce bias—and serve the company more than the user.

"For years, the online dating industry has ignored actual relationship science in favor of unsubstantiated claims and buzzwords, like 'matching algorithms,' that merely sound scientific," Finkel said.

Algorithms and First Date Success In a new study, I was interested in exploring how people’s perceptions of matching algorithms shape the development of their online dating relationships over time.

Psst -- research shows they don't actually work.Internet Culture The one thing about ‘matching’ algorithms that dating sites don’t want you to know ...

It should be no surprise that racial bias factors into swiping matches on dating apps — but algorithms used by these apps may also reinforce prejudice.

Here we arrive at the second major weakness of online dating: the available evidence suggests that the mathematical algorithms at matching sites are negligibly better than matching people at ...

The big dating apps have proprietary matching algorithms that they’re famously cagey about, but most rely on a combination of stated preferences – what you tell the app you want in a partner ...

So how exactly do startups handle the development of these matching algorithms and what can the average entrepreneur learn from these examples?

So how exactly do startups handle the development of these matching algorithms and what can the average entrepreneur learn from these examples?

How Startups Develop and Deploy Matching Algorithms There's plenty to learn from the ways in which their methods both improve and hinder us.