{"id":42894,"date":"2011-07-31T20:08:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T04:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13302"},"modified":"2011-07-31T20:08:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T04:08:17","slug":"liberals-more-politically-picky-in-mates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/31\/liberals-more-politically-picky-in-mates\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals more politically picky in mates?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early 2000s I recall Joel Grus<\/a> telling me how reality television would become a pretty powerful exploratory tool for social science. I’m not quite sure of that now (there here’s a game-theoretic analysis of Survivor!<\/a>). For example, consider The Bachelor<\/i> and The Bachelorette<\/i>. If you watched this series you might think that we’re still living in the same country where a episode of Star Trek<\/i> was not shown in the South because of an interracial kiss<\/a>. In some ways “appointment television” has become a lagging indicator.<\/p>\n

Rather, it looks like firms whose bread & butter is “the social web” are where the gold in social science is.<\/b> Consider the OkTrends<\/a> blog, which is affiliated with and has access to OkCupid<\/a>. These companies have sample sizes not in the thousands, but in the millions! The Financial Times<\/i> has a fascinating piece on the “secret sauce” of Match.com, Inside Match.com: It’s all about the algorithm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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With the number of paying subscribers using Match approaching 1.8 million<\/b>, the \u00adcompany has had to develop ever more \u00adsophisticated programs to manage, sort and pair the world’s singles. Central to this effort has been the development, over the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the early 2000s I recall Joel Grus telling me how reality television would become a pretty powerful exploratory tool for social science. I’m not quite sure of that now (there here’s a game-theoretic analysis of Survivor!). For example, c…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,39,281,746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-data","category-data-analysis","category-dating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42952,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42894\/revisions\/42952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}