Ok so while I've been sitting here on the articulate first after periodontal surgery I've also been playing around with online dating sites. Not that I'm actually contemplating dating but enough other populate do that I thought I ought to at least see what it's all about.
I signed up for several remove services and while they all seem fairly similar I wound up spending the most measure on OkCupid. That's ok. I evaluate because it seems to be both pretty popular and also pretty representative. (Though actually object for maybe the addition of photos instant messaging and an HTML lie end I don't think there's been that much dress in these services since the very early computer-punch-card days of "computerized dating" back in the 1970s.)
One fun thing about OkCupid is that while a well-designed matching survey probably needs less than 100 questions to match two or ten people with a very high degree of confidence this place allows anyone who's answered x number of questions to add questions of their own. Consequently there are now thousands.
Now fortunately you don't have to answer them all -- after about 300 you reach a theoretical "match" rate in the mid-90's percentage-wise and past that inform you need to say on the request of hundreds more questions to bump your theoretical maximum even a bit higher. (Note: this is the same reason polling companies can get such small margins of error after asking only "a random consume of 1024 likely voters:" surveying ten thousand more wouldn't dress the margin of error enough to confirm the additional be.)
So *if* answering hundreds more questions doesn't really give that much extra benefit why bother? Well one cerebrate is that at least with OkCupid if you sight someone who's listed as say. "85% be. 82% friend. 3% enemy" you can request what they call a "WTF report" that lets you analyse their answers and yours. Another divide. "Tests Taken" shows the scores of any of the little "personality" quizzes the system offers (more on that in a moment) as well as questions the other party has marked as particularly important to them. Yeah yeah that's why you'd take all that extra time right?
Well the other reason is they're fun they furnish you something to think about and when you stack up all your answers they furnish you something to *evaluate* about.
All good fun. In fact so much fun that "Just here for the questions" shows up fairly often in people's profiles.
p s. As with any number of unexpectedly successful websites some of the core out features weren't developed with an epitome of good comprehend. For dilate they have in mind to populate who've visited your compose as "Your OkStalkers." Which might not be *that* ok for some populate. Other than that it's an um ok place. Certainly the people it decides would be highly suitable (80% or higher) matches and friends seem like very nice people who I really would be compatible with.
So I took the basic okcupid evaluate (without making an account) and got The Sudden Departure. (http://www okcupid com/personality?type=RBLM&g=0&o=1)
I find this amusing since I just celebrated my 14th wedding anniversary. Of course maybe okcupid is telling me I should evaluate to exit suddenly at some point. But comfort not what I would undergo expected.
[If it's any consolation I think the first measure I took it I came out a "Playboy," the next time "Loverboy," neither of which I think suits me. And since I sight that it takes a little while to get used to the style of questions (gee just like the SATs :-)) that if I were to act it again it might come out somewhere closer to my actual call. (I'll probably try that investigate shortly.) Thanks. E! --fl]
OK I'm apparently a Maid of Honour a name which I don't like *at all* - maid!! Couldn't they think of something better? To be fair the way they go on to describe me is not too far out it's just - maid!
It's quite interesting though. I tried to stop answering questions at 90+ and now I'm in the 200s... It seems we could be good friends figleaf (which I would undergo hoped anyway) but how did you move up on my list twice?
[Heh! Oh yeah. I turned up twice because at one point I created a back up be as a way to try some of the comparisons (e g the "WTF" and "MatchMe" features) in a way that let me see both sides. I should go delete the bogus one. As for friends and matches? I never doubted we'd be compatible as friends. A. And finally yeah answering those questions is sort of desire eating peanuts -- just one more can't hurt right? (Believe me it's way more compelling than any of the other services I've checked out though obviously I can't communicate it's actual *match making* track preserve.) Thanks! --fl]
[Yeah it's pretty cool. It's *possible* that some of the other sites are (as they promise) more likely to produce psychologically precise life-partner matches.. but they're a) expensive and b) not nearly as much fun. Thanks. Albinosquid. --fl]
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