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Reviewed By: Troy

Location: Ontario

Sex: Male

Rating: *****

Date: March 07, 2010

I don't even know where to start with what is wrong with this site. As a person with a psychology background, I can tell you that there wasn't much psychology put into this site.

Their "29 dimensions" of compatibility are nothing more than a generic personality questionnaire that can be found anywhere on the internet an on other dating sites.

After reading their personality profile of me, it was very generic and at least a third of it was completely inaccurate. That's right, 33% of their "29 dimensions" couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. About 50% of it had some accurate information, but it was hit and miss and some of the items they said didn't mesh with the items that were true. That leaves us with about 17% that was accurate.

The first time I signed up, they told me that they weren't able to match me. This of course was during their "communication free" weekend. They claimed that this happens 20% of the time.

Now, I've grudgingly taken statistics and research methods in psychology and I can tell you that a 20% failure rate is not okay on any level. Any statistician will tell you the exact same thing.

There is no empirical evidence of how successful they are and they were unwilling to provide any statistical data to prove that they were successful. They didn't have any information on how long these relationships lasted and it appeared that they only used information that was provided to them upon closing of their site, which doesn't show that their site works, just that their site was able to do what every other free dating site is able to do.

The people in their commercials have been proven to be actors and are often "pretty people". I have yet to see an average looking person in their commercial saying that they met through eHarmony and that it was the best thing in the world.

Their system doesn't take into account superficiality which is something that's necessary when trying to match people.

One of their claims that makes me laugh is the claim that "You will have higher success of using the site if you contact each one of your matches." Well of course you're going to have a higher rate of success of getting a date if you contact every single person you're matched with. You'll have a higher rate of success if you asked every person that walked by your house out on a date too.

Their service is over priced and the questionnaires they use can be found on free sites.

Their "highly trained professional staff" appears to be nothing more than young grad students or people who have just graduated with a degree. Few of the people that they have working for them have any experience in dating or human behaviour for that matter.

Save your money, use a free site.



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