OKCupid set up bad matches

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

On the heels of learning of the Facebook social engineering experiment, we learn 
that OKCupid did much the same thing, lying to users about how "compatible" 
they were:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28542642

(The additional research, which determined that most people decide to contact 
other people based on profile image rather than any actual information, was 
funded by the Ministry for Study of the Bleedin' Obvious.)

In other breaking news, we have learned that sometimes people, companies, and 
Websites on the Internet don't tell the truth ...


Disclaimer: this may not be a real email message.  It may have been created by a 
private individual or company, untrammelled by restrictions and requirements 
(undertaken by universities and institutes) on psychological testing, and interested 
solely in marketing.  It may be a troll or other peice of social engineering.  Please 
do not marry (or divorce) anyone based upon its contents.

======================  (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
Man is only a subject full of error, natural and ineffaceable,
without grace. Nothing shows him the truth. Everything deceives
him. These two sources of truth, reason and the senses, besides
being both wanting in sincerity, deceive each other in turn.
                         - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pensees (1660)
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