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It's fairly certain that "old, ugly, fat, have children" are all characteristics that would lower the match %, therefore you argument of equating these differen
by hughprime 17y ago
It's fairly certain that "old, ugly, fat, have children" are all characteristics that would lower the match %, therefore you argument of equating these different traits is debunked.
I think you need to look up how their "match %" is computed. It was described in an earlier post on that blog.
- codexon 17y agoI don't think I do. I think you do. "All OkCupid users create their own matching algorithms, so when we determine who matches who, we’re just crunching the numbers people give us." Aspects like age/location can be included as part of the user matching algorithms if it is important to them. Overweight/has kids/ugly should be equally spread out between races and should not be dependent on race, especially only after the first message. Therefore match % is basically everything except race that is important to the user.