Other eHarmony Claims
All this seems very impressive, but there are questions about the validity of eHarmony’s much-vaunted �scientific, 29-dimension� tests. Does its �science� greatly improve the quality (or odds) of a match? How well do its tests construct validity? What were the control measures? What is the scientific evidence for these claims?
Steven Carter, director of research at eHarmony, wrote an article in the APS Observer (published by the Association for Psychological Science) about his work. Instead of offering data or empirical evidence that eHarmony’s matching system is valid (or superior to other dating sites’ systems), Carter (2005) boasted about how helpful his work was to lonely singles and that �working at eHarmony has, in many ways, been a dream job.�