Can Your Dating App Predict Chemistry? | 8
Call Me Curious
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4.4 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Is finding your soulmate as simple as entering some info into an app? Can romantic chemistry be broken down into 1's and 0's? You've got a date with Nikki Boyer as she talks to dating expert and fellow Wondery podcaster Sydnee Paige (Sydnee in the Sheets) who uses multiple dating apps to find love in New York City. Then Nikki and Malone find out what determines that spark between two people when they talk to a chemistry expert and advisor to Match.com. Plus, an expert on algorithms explains how dating apps use science and math to find you love.
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| 0:00.0 | From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, |
| 0:10.6 | where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny, strange, puzzling, |
| 0:15.3 | or just got-a-know questions you have. |
| 0:17.5 | And we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is. |
| 0:21.7 | Because I've got 21 questions. I've been 21 guessing. You could teach me a lesson. |
| 0:28.9 | Call me curious. Call me curious. Call me curious. So tell the truth. |
| 0:38.3 | I need to know that it's real. |
| 0:44.3 | Know that it's real. |
| 0:47.3 | So tell the truth. |
| 0:48.3 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:53.3 | Hi there. Welcome to this show. Welcome to Call Me Curious. I'm going to tell you right now, we're going to have a great show today. Because anyone who has ever used a dating app, well, you're going to love this one. Because we're going to talk to some experts, give you a peek behind the curtain, and definitely get a few answers. |
| 1:13.9 | Okay, so let's talk about dating. Once upon a time, there was really no dating. You just |
| 1:21.1 | married who your parents told you to, and often your dad had to toss in a few goats and maybe |
| 1:26.0 | some loaves of bread to sweeten the deal for the other family. |
| 1:29.0 | It's so weird, right? |
| 1:31.0 | Later, the dating pool expanded so you could choose your soulmate from a group that included |
| 1:36.3 | friends, friends of friends, classmates, coworkers, folks you randomly met at parties, and |
| 1:41.4 | your mom's hairdresser's grandson, right? |
| 1:43.4 | But now, we live in the golden age of the dating app, right? |
| 1:47.8 | You just punch in a little personal information, |
| 1:50.0 | and then suddenly you have literally hundreds of pre-sorted potential matches to swide through. |
| 1:54.5 | Amazing, right? |
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