I get the other way around (higher friend than match) for most folks.
The “friend” percentages are based on whether or not you have the SAME answers as someone. The “match” percentages are based on whether they answer your “ideal match” answer and you theirs.
For instance, for the question:
Do you eat the last donut? (yes, no)
What would your ideal match say to this question? (yes, no, doesn’t matter)
If we would BOTH eat the last donut, then we would be matched as friends-- but we would only be a “match” for this question if YOU answered “no,” and that either your ideal match WOULD eat the last donut, or that you didn’t care if they did. (In other words, my answers are “yes” and “no” respectively.)
If you’re getting much higher match than friend numbers, then you must be someone who’s some kind of “universal date” (i.e. you consistently give answers that most people don’t give, but that they would like in their partners).
Looks like relationship-wise I’m most compatible with… a chick?! Shouldn’t they figure your sexual preference somewhere into that percentage? And the “I think we should just be friends” award goes to… Aesiron! (sorry dude, there are other fish in the sea) If it makes you feel any better, I’m only 95% compatible with myself.
I’m only 50/50 compatible with you, per OkCupid, but we seem to get along pretty well. Foxy and I haven’t killed each other yet, and we’re only in the 60s compatible.
After hearing about it in this thread, and especially learning about the age range, I gave it a shot and registered under the name “Netbrian”. I also used my work shifts as an opportunity to do many of the tests and answer some of their random questions. We’ll see where this takes me.
That is an interesting distinction. I guess that means that either I or everyone else (Occam’s Razor would say the former) is answering questions one way and wants others to answer it another. Hm, I guess I’ll go answer more questions and see if there’s a reason for this, or if I’m just a big ol’ hypocrite.
Well, some 60 questions later, I can confidently say that I’m not a hypocrite.
I tend to answer “How would your Ideal Match answer this question?” with all but one answer checked (so many of these questions can be taken different ways, after all), so that’s probably why it’s so easy to match with me. Mystery solved.
Also, it occurs to me that I haven’t yet linked to my profile so there you go. Be kind.
Ok, then you’re not “shibboleth” from NYC: he and I only matched 32/52 (but then, he’s only answered 13 questions).
The highest local match I get is 83/82, and that’s with the guy who couldn’t handle a polite rejection without getting defensive and calling me a liar. The highest match I’ve ever gotten is with Sengkelat, at 86/84. There has to be a local 87/85 out there somewhere!
No, I think he’s a younger than me gay man. I am older and not so gay, but still male. I am just regular old Shibb in OkCupid. You could have found that out by checking LadyFoxFyre’s friend list or using my email address to check.
Here it is, folks. The world’s most generic profile. I keep trying to make it better, yet I never come up with anything. Good thing I’m not really trying to use it for its intended purpose.
I did notice that, Shibb. I thought maybe OKcupid had assigned you such a low score because you hadn’t answered enough questions (and 50/50? Weirdddd…). I don’t think the two of us know each other well enough not to like each other - besides, we’re both from Tampa, and therefore both equal in coolness. And people that are ~equal in coolness seem to get along better. However, I’m surprised my overuse of parentheses and quotation marks hasn’t driven you away yet.
If this is true, wouldn’t that mean I’d be matched 100% with myself as a “friend?” I’m only matched 95% match & 92% friend.
More numbers (match/friend):
BraheSilver: 75/75
Antigen (who is taken): 81/78
Harimad-sol: 74/73
bouv: 80/72
KKBattousai: 83/73 (how you doin?)
Netbrian: 70/70
Guy I met in New Orleans who I am likely never to see again: 78/73
I’ve gotten a couple of friend requests from Dopers, which I have turned down, so I just thought I’d explain that, while I appreciate the thought (and the idea of SDMB brotherhood/sisterhood), I prefer to keep my “real friends” list to people that I actually do know in real life.
I wasn’t bored enough to go hunting for anyone’s profile: if a link wasn’t posted I tried the person’s SDMB user name, and that’s it. If there was a profile under the user name but I couldn’t confirm that it and the Doper were one and the same, I assumed not.
You’ll probably get a bunch of us online-dating veterans saying this, so let me be the first: post a photo (of yourself)! Pictures are almost required parts of profiles these days. The rest of it seems fine to me: honest, and well-written.
Oh, and I match you 79/79. That’s only the second time I’ve come across someone with the same number for “match” as for “friend”!
Well, I’m bored so I ran the matches. (BTW, my profile is under t_violet but there’s nothing filled in or any pictures currently up. Still has tests results, etc. tho’.)
I don’t think I’d last any given week without Almond Crush Pocky, unparalleled in the snack-food kingdom. considers writing a Pocky-related OKCupid quiz, then decides against it
Much, much better now that I see the class of women with whom I match highly.
My profile is pretty old, but mostly still relevant.
I’ve compared scores with all the other people who’ve linked their profiles, but don’t have the compulsion to look them all up again right now. They were all pretty good, 70%+ for the most part, but again, I sincerely doubt the accuracy of their matching algorithms.
And the “I think we should just be friends” award goes to… Aesiron! (sorry dude, there are other fish in the sea) If it makes you feel any better, I’m only 95% compatible with myself.
