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"Duolicious has a question bank containing over 2000 thoughtful and unique questions designed to help us gain authentic insight into your personality" And then

"Duolicious has a question bank containing over 2000 thoughtful and unique questions designed to help us gain authentic insight into your personality" And then do a clustering in n-dimensional space. Forget it, won't work. I am not looking to date a clone of myself. But this clustering approach might work well with resumes for hiring. People hire people with similar resumes.

krisoft 2y ago
I don’t know how Duolicious does it. With okcupid you could not just answer the question, but also mark which answers you would “accept” in a potential partner and how much you care about that question from “not at all” to “very much”. For example if the question was “Do you do drugs?” i can answer it with a “no” but also mark that I’m willing to meet people who marked either “no” or “only soft stuff, like weed”, and that it is a “somewhat important” question for me. But as an other example about the question “What does wherefore mean in Wherefore art thou Romeo?” I would mark that I accept all answers and care about others answer not at all. But if someone else cared about this they could still see that my answer was “why”.
- Beijinger 2y ago
  Well, I am not especially found of tattoos. But if there is one thing I dislike in dating profiles, then it is a long laundry list of what I have to be and what I don't have to be. Nothing makes you look older and unavailable.
  - lmm 2y ago
    > But if there is one thing I dislike in dating profiles, then it is a long laundry list of what I have to be and what I don't have to be. Nothing makes you look older and unavailable. Then surely an app that allows people to do the filtering they want without writing these things on their profile is a good thing?
  - krisoft 2y ago
    > I am not especially found of tattoos How much? Is it an “all things considered equal i prefer someone without tattoos” or a deal breaker for you? Because that is the beauty of the system. Depending on the weight you put on the question it might not show you anyone who answered “yes I have tattoos”. Or just rank them lower. Or if you marked this question totally unimportant to you it won’t even count in the ranking. > I dislike in dating profiles, then it is a long laundry list of what I have to be and what I don't have to be I agree with that. But that is not what we are talking about.
0xDEAFBEAD 2y ago
OKCupid had a clever way to handle this back in the day. Whenever you answered a question, the site would also ask how your ideal partner would've answered. (I think you could specify multiple different answers as acceptable.) So you're free to specify that your ideal partner would answer differently than you yourself.

krisoft 2y ago

I don’t know how Duolicious does it. With okcupid you could not just answer the question, but also mark which answers you would “accept” in a potential partner and how much you care about that question from “not at all” to “very much”. For example if the question was “Do you do drugs?” i can answer it with a “no” but also mark that I’m willing to meet people who marked either “no” or “only soft stuff, like weed”, and that it is a “somewhat important” question for me. But as an other example about the question “What does wherefore mean in Wherefore art thou Romeo?” I would mark that I accept all answers and care about others answer not at all. But if someone else cared about this they could still see that my answer was “why”.

Beijinger 2y ago
Well, I am not especially found of tattoos. But if there is one thing I dislike in dating profiles, then it is a long laundry list of what I have to be and what I don't have to be. Nothing makes you look older and unavailable.
- lmm 2y ago
  > But if there is one thing I dislike in dating profiles, then it is a long laundry list of what I have to be and what I don't have to be. Nothing makes you look older and unavailable. Then surely an app that allows people to do the filtering they want without writing these things on their profile is a good thing?
- krisoft 2y ago
  > I am not especially found of tattoos How much? Is it an “all things considered equal i prefer someone without tattoos” or a deal breaker for you? Because that is the beauty of the system. Depending on the weight you put on the question it might not show you anyone who answered “yes I have tattoos”. Or just rank them lower. Or if you marked this question totally unimportant to you it won’t even count in the ranking. > I dislike in dating profiles, then it is a long laundry list of what I have to be and what I don't have to be I agree with that. But that is not what we are talking about.

0xDEAFBEAD 2y ago

OKCupid had a clever way to handle this back in the day. Whenever you answered a question, the site would also ask how your ideal partner would've answered. (I think you could specify multiple different answers as acceptable.) So you're free to specify that your ideal partner would answer differently than you yourself.