![]() ![]() Of those couples, 3,000 will date, 200 will marry, and many of these married couples will have children. ![]() As Rudder writes, on any given evening, 30,000 couples meet for the first time thanks to the site. Online dating has evolved into an indispensable pillar of modern coupling, and OkCupid has been at the vanguard of that charge. Over OkCupid's 10 years in existence, Rudder and his colleagues have sifted through users' minute details - where QTpie217 lives, what medSTUDent109 thinks of horror movies - to arrive at broader theories of human attraction and bring compatible individuals together through their algorithms. His book's title nods to the almost unfathomable deluge of personal data (in the form of the digital breadcrumbs we leave on social sites and apps) that is available for analysis today. And, his experiments on OkCupid users, which we covered in July, are just the tip of the iceberg. ![]()
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