OKCupid isn’t a “hetero” dating site; they’ve just been primarily using hetero data for their OKTrends blog.

Posted by Tim McCormack on 24 November 02009 @ 7pm

The Muppets vid was excellent. My girlfriend and I have been watching The Muppet Show, which like SNL is a bit hit-and-miss… but when it hits, *boy* does it hit!

Posted by Tim McCormack on 24 November 02009 @ 7pm

Wouldn’t aiming only for the hottest women make the men optimistic in their aspirations?

Posted by I.Publius on 24 November 02009 @ 10pm

Huh, that’s interesting—I thought, like most dating sites, they only matched up people of the opposite sex. Well, smart business move.

And you’re right, IP—I used the wrong word there. I worked my little brain into a pretzel trying to sort out that simple punnett square kinda thing. :)

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 24 November 02009 @ 11pm

Where does your information on “most dating sites” come from, Waldo? I thought eHarmony was unusual among dating sites in *not* handling homosexual relationships. Certainly Match.com does.

Posted by KCinDC on 25 November 02009 @ 11am

Just complaints I’ve heard from gay friends over the years, KC. I’d be happy to hear that things have changed!

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 25 November 02009 @ 3pm

Waldo: OKCupid is also a bit different from the others in that it uses a fairly unique matching algorithm. Users answer multiple-choice questions, indicate how their “ideal match” might answer them (multiple selection allowed), and select how important it is that their match answer this way. Then statistical analysis is applied on the intersection of the answered question for each pair of users. I haven’t used any other dating sites, but I think that they are mostly based on keyword searches.

I was initially drawn to the site due to their statistical approach, and I’m glad to see them *finally* performing some fun analysis on the user data they’ve accumulated.

Posted by Tim McCormack on 27 November 02009 @ 12pm