OKCupid is Too True

Whitney:
After match, which has an interface that a turnip could navigate, I'm finding OKCupid to be refreshingly challenging. You have to think harder, longer, and more delicately about your responses to questions. Your answers result in a profile comprised of weighted scores with varying levels of significance. Given human complexity, you ultimately want a computer-generated assessment of yourself to be both impossibly, mechanically misunderstood, and at the same time crushingly, terrifyingly true.

I have only responded to one quiz. The result: I am classified as "The Dirty Little Secret": Deliberate, Gentle Sex Master (DGSM). It's pretty much right on: C'est le vraiment vrai verite. I'm supposed to be a good match for The Bachelor or the Backrubber.

OKCupid can put into words the phrases you may not have wanted to utter out loud (or hear, for that matter), but it does the rest of us potential swooners the favor of rooting out possible major incompatibilities, for example, when it comes to feelings on sex, religion, monogamy, and whether or not you want to make a baby or participate in a joint bee-keeping venture.

There is an invaluable component to all of this: The hypothetical issues above are too heavy to raise with someone when you first meet them. The questions themselves can scare people off, nevermind the ensuing, bumbling answers (or avoidance of...). Thus, statistically accurate profiles can save us heartache and help us to move toward the clearer truth... Right?