Online dating firm OKCupid has admitted using its members as guinea pigs—and, as its blog post title “We Experiment on Human Beings!” signals, it isn’t exactly sorry about it. The company says it has played around with people’s profiles, removing text and photos in some cases and telling users…
By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – OkCupid, a top U.S. matchmaking website, regularly mismatches users to test its technology, the IAC/InterActive Corp service revealed on Monday, weeks after Facebook Inc admitted to misleading users in a psychological study. “When we tell people they are a good match, they act as if they are,” co-founder […]
Facebook received a lot of backlash when news came out that it had manipulated users news feeds in order to experiment on them, and today OkCupid is responding with the admission that it too has run experiments on users. OkCupid isnt apologizing for it though — rather, its arguing that experiments across the web are good and […]
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