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I love the idea! Since I personally believe that every person has a 'perfect match'. To those who don't, consider the following: 1) You either do or don't get

by SCHiM 11y ago

I love the idea! Since I personally believe that every person has a 'perfect match'. To those who don't, consider the following: 1) You either do or don't get along with certain people. 2) This is determined by how they act, look and your dispositions to those actions and looks. 3) Given these terms for quantifying the amount of 'like' you feel towards a person, it follows that there are combinations of act/look that you absolutely loathe or love. 4) There exists a combination of act/look that is your perfect match, the combination that you love the most, ie. Your soulmate. What does not follow is that you would like someone who, as the site puts it, is very much like you. I'm quite sure I couldn't stand myself in certain situations. Maybe your soulmate is actually someone who is entirely unlike you in certain aspects? EDIT: Also it's likely, at least in my case, that some of the questions don't have the options you'd pick. I guess it kinda proves that 8 options over 8 questions can't be used to arbitrarily identity a person.

autarch 11y ago
Except that I'm fairly sure a lot of studies have shown that the more time you spend with someone, the more you like them (at least if you liked them to start with). I suspect you're much more likely to find a good romantic partner by spending more quality time with people you initially like and find attractive, rather than spending all your effort trying to meet as many different people as possible.
- SCHiM 11y ago
  Uhh, I agree with you. But what I don't get is where you see the contradiction in what we both said. Where do we disagree?
mb_72 11y ago
Well, the 'matching' might be correct at a certain point in time, but people do change. These kind of questions might nail how people feel and think and act now, however what about the future? Relationships start and finish all the time because of the dynamic nature of people's personalities (even if the changes are small ones).

by SCHiM 11y ago

autarch 11y ago

Except that I'm fairly sure a lot of studies have shown that the more time you spend with someone, the more you like them (at least if you liked them to start with). I suspect you're much more likely to find a good romantic partner by spending more quality time with people you initially like and find attractive, rather than spending all your effort trying to meet as many different people as possible.

SCHiM 11y ago
Uhh, I agree with you. But what I don't get is where you see the contradiction in what we both said. Where do we disagree?

mb_72 11y ago

Well, the 'matching' might be correct at a certain point in time, but people do change. These kind of questions might nail how people feel and think and act now, however what about the future? Relationships start and finish all the time because of the dynamic nature of people's personalities (even if the changes are small ones).