Watching the meme grow by leaps and bounds

[gement]

So, I've gotten really obsessed with the OK Cupid "dating" site, not for its dating aspects, as I'm well booked on that count, but for its exhaustively analytical algorithm. It asks smart questions about people and draws smart conclusions from them. My "top matches" are at least 75% people that I'd like to at least hang out with.

I don't seem to be the only one in this boat, as the site growth is literally exponential over the course of the last week. It's packed with intelligent geeks who like answering questions about themselves and starting interesting conversations. Also, I found this stat fascinating:

39% Males          60% Females
3% Gay Males       2% Gay Females
3% Bi Males        16% Bi Females

There are a profound number of sexy intelligent geek women signing on to this site. Anyone who's looking for those... check it out. (The site is still in beta, so there's occasional but brief downtime and they still haven't added all the features, such as flexible location searching.)

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[gement.livejournal.com]

That... is both really interesting and really unusual. Almost all the test takers I know felt their results pegged them to a tee. It sounds terribly apologist, but I wonder if they've got a system bug today. Their question engine is broken, and maybe that involves their quiz analysis engine.

You got the Sudden Departure, which... wow, yeah, sounds nothing like someone with a life long dating history of TWO. You may be so strange that you broke the system, but I doubt it. I'm certain it's not the poly thing. I'm poly and so are most of my matches, and we're coming up Maids of Honor and Gentlemen all over the place.

By the way, the much more accurate matching system is inside the site, and not actually related to the quiz. You get to rank how important it is that a potential partner answers each question the way you want them to (which is not necessarily the same as your own answer). It's brutally effective at weeding out people you have nothing in common with.

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[drascus.livejournal.com]

It really has been a beautiful system for me so far. Of course, I have a somewhat more normal dating history, but still, I've done the odd "ungentlemanly" thing in my life and I still got Gentleman as a result. It could be the system is broken, or it could be a data set outside the algorithem's bounds.

Either way, it's not perfect, but it's far and away the best matching system I've ever seen.