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Frankly, there's an opportunity here: make a dating site just for smart people. Don't just ask about people's alma mater, ask for their GPA and major. Don't j

Frankly, there's an opportunity here: make a dating site just for smart people. Don't just ask about people's alma mater, ask for their GPA and major. Don't just let people say what they do, ask what their employer and title is. Ask for SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, whatever other scores. Then let your users screen on the stuff that they use as a proxy for smart. We all have different definitions for smart; just try to accommodate as many of them as possible. Women complain all the time about having to act dumber to find a man because the dumb men are the ones who ask them out.

chris11 18y ago
There are already service that somewhat meet those needs. Eg: http://www.rightstuffdating.com/ http://www.rightstuffdating.com/. This site limits members to specific schools. Not all of the accepted schools are ivy league quality, and you could probably get in from a school not on the list. But the service is being advertised as for single adults from elite universities. There are other similar dating services. Plus there is always Mensa and other high-iq societies. People have said that Mensa has just turned into a club to find people to date. Here's Kathleen O's experience with using Mensa for dating:http://www.yelp.com/topic/chicago-a-speed-dating-service-like-no-other-regular-people-need-not-apply http://www.yelp.com/topic/chicago-a-speed-dating-service-lik...
unalone 18y ago
The problem with that is that when you exclude people based on something like GPA/major, you're going to attract a very ugly sort of good-grades person.
asciilifeform 18y ago
>make a dating site just for smart people This has been done. (http://www.intelligentpeople.com http://www.intelligentpeople.com) They seem to use the same test for every applicant (a dusty scan of the famous Raven's Progressive Matrices.) So the system is easy to game, if you so wished.

chris11 18y ago

There are already service that somewhat meet those needs. Eg: http://www.rightstuffdating.com/ http://www.rightstuffdating.com/. This site limits members to specific schools. Not all of the accepted schools are ivy league quality, and you could probably get in from a school not on the list. But the service is being advertised as for single adults from elite universities. There are other similar dating services. Plus there is always Mensa and other high-iq societies. People have said that Mensa has just turned into a club to find people to date. Here's Kathleen O's experience with using Mensa for dating:http://www.yelp.com/topic/chicago-a-speed-dating-service-like-no-other-regular-people-need-not-apply http://www.yelp.com/topic/chicago-a-speed-dating-service-lik...

unalone 18y ago

The problem with that is that when you exclude people based on something like GPA/major, you're going to attract a very ugly sort of good-grades person.

asciilifeform 18y ago

>make a dating site just for smart people This has been done. (http://www.intelligentpeople.com http://www.intelligentpeople.com) They seem to use the same test for every applicant (a dusty scan of the famous Raven's Progressive Matrices.) So the system is easy to game, if you so wished.