OK Cupid's matching method is purely mathematical. Instead of making you answer psychological questionaires, or squish you into some sort of profiling scheme, the site has you answer other users' questions, both how you would answer the question and how you ideal match would answer the question. Then you indicate how important that question is to them. For example:
Would you date an atheist?
- Yes
- No
Your Ideal Match:
- Yes
- No
Importance:
- Mandatory
- Very Important
- Somewhat Important
- A Little Important
- Irrelevant
Your answers, and your ideal mate's answers, then get thrown into a big mathematical formula that calculates your matchability with other OK Cupid users.
Today, on the OK Cupid blog, the creators announced they have now come up with a way to create a Flowchart to Your Heart - a graphical representation of questions and answers and how it can all result in scoring a date or getting rejected. They don't seem to have released this to masses yet. I hope they do - I really want to see the flowchart to my heart.
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Incidentally, we did finally release it to the masses last week. You can get to it from the "Toys" page under the "Treasures" menu.
Everyone who's answered enough questions and has signed in recently will also get one by e-mail (assuming haven't opted out of e-mail from us, of course).
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