{"id":14756,"date":"2016-11-11T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14756"},"modified":"2016-11-11T06:40:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T11:40:39","slug":"game-theory-and-dating-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/game-theory-and-dating-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Theory And Dating Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/111116_1136_GameTheoryA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Uri Bram listed the different ways that a new generation of apps is using game theory to make online heterosexual dating better:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ratio of men to women in most dating apps is 60:40. However since men message a lot more than women, it&#8217;s effectively 80:20.<\/li>\n<li>Women are inundated with hundreds of messages from men who are only vaguely interested, and men have little other choice since the response rate is so low. It&#8217;s an unhappy equilibrium.<\/li>\n<li>Enter game theory. The problem is that there&#8217;s no cost to using a limited resource \u2013 in this case, the resource is a woman&#8217;s attention.<\/li>\n<li>One app got over this by imposing a limit on supply: only one match was allowed a day.<\/li>\n<li>Others are targeting the demand side. Coffee Meets Bagel allows users to pay to send a &#8220;woo&#8221; which indicates significant interest. By adding a price, the app helps regulate demand for the scarce resource.<\/li>\n<li>Game theory addresses other concerns. Women may feel it&#8217;s inappropriate to send a message first, even if they really like someone. So one app only lets women do the messaging.<\/li>\n<li>Messaging too quickly by either gender can make someone seem needy. So Bumble only gives users 24 hours to message each other, giving them an excuse to communicate early.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1843magazine.com\/culture\/the-daily\/how-game-theory-improves-dating-apps\">1843<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uri Bram listed the different ways that a new generation of apps is using game theory to make online heterosexual dating better: The ratio of men to women in most dating apps is 60:40. However since men message a lot more than women, it&#8217;s effectively 80:20. Women are inundated with hundreds of messages from men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/111116_1136_GameTheoryA1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14759,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14756\/revisions\/14759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}