OkCupid meets speed-dating
Jun. 27th, 2010 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslOkCupid is really good at measuring similarity and predicting friendship, but bad at predicting chemistry. I've met several good friends through it.
Speed-dating is high-throughput but low-yield (nearly random sample of Vancouver people). Experiments suggest that I'm compatible with <5% of Vancouver women 25-35, even for just Platonic friendships. (Take away the Platonic, and this probably goes under 1%).
Next Saturday I'm meeting with a number of men and women for dinner, matched through OkCupid.
Does anyone know if their compatibility score is a *metric*, i.e. do friend- and match-percentages obey the triangle inequality?
Speed-dating is high-throughput but low-yield (nearly random sample of Vancouver people). Experiments suggest that I'm compatible with <5% of Vancouver women 25-35, even for just Platonic friendships. (Take away the Platonic, and this probably goes under 1%).
Next Saturday I'm meeting with a number of men and women for dinner, matched through OkCupid.
Does anyone know if their compatibility score is a *metric*, i.e. do friend- and match-percentages obey the triangle inequality?