em_tsuj wrote:
Everyday Okcupid sends me matches, but the match percentage doesn't seem to correlate with how good of a match we would be. For example, I could view a profile that is over 90% match and immediately see major things that show we are incompatible. I'm wondering how they do the matches on Okcupid. What are other people's experience with the match % on Okcupid?
It depends both on how you answer the match questions and the importance value that you place on them. If you haven't answered many questions, then the match percentage isn't too accurate. On the other hand, those questions are weighted with respect to the importance level that you give them, with the questions marked as "mandatory" affecting your match percentage the most down to "a little important", only giving a slight change, while the questions that you answered as irrelevant don't affect your match percentages at all. After I got some bad matches, I started adjusting the importance level of some of my questions and now I've even noticed that one particular who had an 81% match with me before has now dropped to 10% but meanwhile,match percentages of most of the people who I thought were good matches anyway generally increased.