{"id":43507,"date":"2014-04-11T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_peter_leithart_a_study_of_eharmony_concludes-people_mainly_want_to_date\/"},"modified":"2014-04-11T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T02:00:08","slug":"ft_peter_leithart_a_study_of_eharmony_concludes-people_mainly_want_to_date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43507","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Peter Leithart: A Study of Eharmony concludes&#8211;&#34;People mainly want to date themselves.&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Pierson studied \u201cstudied 1 million matches made by the online dating website eHarmony\u2019s algorithm, which aims to pair people who will be attracted to one another and compatible over the long term; if the people agree, they can message each other to set up a meeting in real life. eHarmony\u2019s data on its users contains 102 traits for each person \u201d\u201d everything from how passionate and ambitious they claim to be to how much they say they drink, smoke and earn.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>She found that the old adage about opposites and attraction doesn\u2019t hold&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2014\/04\/same-old-same\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Pierson studied \u201cstudied 1 million matches made by the online dating website eHarmony\u2019s algorithm, which aims to pair people who will be attracted to one another and compatible over the long term; if the people agree, they can message<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43507\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,175,94,168,125,129,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-men","category-psychology","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}