Tinder Is Internally Ranking Its Users Based On 'Desirability'

It turns out the application has an internal rating system that lets the company score and rank the desirability of its clients. So it's not precisely swiping left or right on anybody, but rather is there even a distinction? The scores aren't accessible to you or people in general, but a Fast Company writer could take an inside look and discover his own particular rating.

It's known as the 'Elo score,' a term used in chess to rank player skill levels. In short, the ranking system offers the company some assistance with facilitating matches based on score compatibility. So in case you're truly desirable, you have a better chance of ending up with another truly attractive individual.

Tinder data engineer Tor Solli-Nowlan further clarifies that people don't have the same taste, so the Elo score isn't a universal ranking of attractiveness. In a basic explanation, Tinder data analyst Chris Dumler describes it as a voting system in which every swipe is a vote of whether you believe somebody's desirable. The engineers added that they utilise this information to study which profiles are viewed as the most engaging overall.

It may appear somewhat questionable in the first place, yet it makes sense that a dating application has some kind of internal rating system, and it would be nothing unexpected if other dating applications had comparative tools. Dating applications would really like to get their clients to coordinate. That is the reason, for instance, OkCupid makes you answer a whole bunch of questions and shares your compatibility rate with different users.

Regardless of what factors go into your Elo score, we're not certain anybody would truly need to know theirs. Part of the excellence of Tinder is that you never know when anybody swipes left on you and taking in your Elo score would most likely be a tremendous hit to your self-esteem. Uber ranks its riders on a scale of 1 to 5, which you can see whether you ask for it. Furthermore, checking your own rating on that application is sufficiently terrifying.