Ok, so I’ve worked my way through 147 eHarmony matches now and it’s yielded only one brief and frightening experience at Starbucks. (Actually, it wasn’t brief enough, it was 35 minutes of trying to come up with a polite way to jump from the table and run for my life.) I wouldn’t have originally guessed that there was such an immense selection of compatible women out there and now I’m certain there aren’t. Most of these women have only been compatible in the strictest biological interpretation of the word “compatible”. I’ve come to the conclusion that your now famous 29 dimensions of compatibility fall short by one significant dimension… diameter. By simply adding the diameter dimension to your compatibility checking you could probably drastically cut your server’s processor load and you’d save tons of my time as well. Here’s how it could work: as an absolute limit, a man is really only “compatible” with a woman who’s less than 1.1 times his own diameter. He’d prefer a woman who’s about 50% of his diameter but he’s willing to give the woman a little latitude in this area if she’s otherwise highly compatible. Ideally you’d have a weighted method for determining how far beyond the 50% ideal he’s likely to go relative to the other compatibility factors, but by simply setting an absolute upper limit of 1.1 times the man’s diameter you’ll get most of the desired result without being overly complicated. Now, to determine a woman’s diameter limits for a compatible man is a more difficult undertaking. In addition to the general problem of trying to make any logical predictions about women at all, there’s the additional complication that a woman likely has a lower limit to the acceptable man’s diameter as well as an upper limit. In order to find meaningful data on this you’d probably need to survey some women.
Regards,
Might Rather Die Single – Los Angeles