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Feedback: eHarmony's love formula fails to woo ad watchdog

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17 January 2018

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Paul McDevitt

Love formula

IS ALL fair in love and war? The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) thinks not, since it has . “Step aside, fate. It’s time science had a go at love,” London commuters were told, “eHarmony’s scientifically proven matching system decodes the mystery of compatibility and chemistry so you don’t have to.”

The complaint was filed by a man who should know: Lord Lipsey, the joint chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Statistics, and himself a former member of the . The body…

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