I’ve been a member of OK-Cupid for some time now. They have this neat little feature called matching service.
For those of you who are interested in how everything works? Here is the ‘normal’ FAQ and there is the way it works.
I’ve decided to show you how I think/feel about certain issues. By making some screen shots of some of those questions answered. Besides the ‘multiple choice’ look and feel without me describing how and why I perceive all this way. I think it is a short and quick way to answer questions. The answers given are to me a reflection of the overlapping part which is colored purple in the picture below.

So, do I only match up or get along with people who are ‘connected’ to me by only the purple fraction of their person? Probably yes. Considering that their is more to a person than just that fraction! I believe it would be interesting to get to know the whole person without ‘forcing’ the other to exist only in that fraction! After all ‘they’re’ part of a family too. Which seems to me the common denominator between all humans.
Another reason for me to view all of this in this particular way is:
- While I could be good at math?
- She might as well have great linguistic skills?
Being the pragmatist that I am I believe it to be more important to complement each other rather than just completing a ‘non whole’ person or competing with one! Anyway copying a skill she might have as one of myself I consider as one of the greater compliments I can give her. Or on a much broader scale as a way to pay your respects to a person.
Here are the screen shots.
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By the way there’s nothing static about what these statistics could tell you. Other than at that moment of time I thought this or that way.
Signing off,
Alex
PS: All my arguments are based on set theory or in Dutch ‘leer der verzamelingen’ (Mavo niveau D klas 2).
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