Paul Eastwick

If we think about it a little bit more that way, I think the whole process will become more enjoyable and more fun.

I don't know.

You don't need people telling you this, but you're really good at this because other people I can like tell they're like going through their question and it's like not building.

But anyway, that was really fun.

Thank you for coming on the show.

Yeah, so this is not my favorite feature of the apps.

And look, the apps do introduce people to folks that you never would have had a chance to meet before.

But where I think they falter is where they provide people a sense that you can cull that sometimes very vast pool to something more manageable that looks exactly like what you would have drawn up for yourself on paper.

That there's the perfect partner waiting out there for you

who has a list of attributes along the lines of what you describe.

But the challenge is that when we try to study this topic experimentally, when we actually look at people's filters and whether or not they'd actually end up liking those folks more once they meet face to face, it kind of ends up being more or less of a coin flip.

So in general, the filter is not my favorite feature of what the apps are doing.

Yeah, we don't do all that well.

Now, look, if I were to ask you to draw up your perfect partner, you would certainly sit here and list some attributes and many of those would be positive attributes.

But the problem is that the attributes you're coming up with, it's not like they're uniquely special to you.

And the thought experiment that I like to describe, we have real experiments that fit this.

But the thought experiment here is, well, imagine what would happen if, you know, here you are using your filters and all of a sudden we have, you know, some sort of Freaky Friday situation where my filters get mapped on top of your filters and your filters get mapped on top of mine.

And now the women I'm seeing are the women that David would have liked.

Well, the thing is, ultimately, it probably wouldn't have mattered.

I would have been just as likely to like the women once I meet them face to face if I'd been using your filters rather than mine.