Comments on: The Best Questions For A First Date http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/ The Official Blog of OkCupid.com Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:49:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.8 By: Nico http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/comment-page-5/#comment-34663 Tue, 31 May 2011 03:27:53 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=9262#comment-34663 Hey OKCupid, Why not help your users out by making it possible to search specifically for other users who answered those three relationship predicting questions the same way!?!

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By: Maurog http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/comment-page-5/#comment-34457 Wed, 18 May 2011 09:15:47 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=9262#comment-34457 Lukewarm Buddhists – raising the literacy plank since 5th century BCE.

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By: felix http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/comment-page-5/#comment-34131 Sun, 01 May 2011 11:31:39 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=9262#comment-34131 i think this will help the guys?

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By: Broheim http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/comment-page-5/#comment-31633 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:51:51 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=9262#comment-31633 So, what questions can you ask to find out if someone is financially stable, or at least what question or trait correlates most with a financially stable person? High credit scores can be attractive too.

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By: Dymara http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/comment-page-5/#comment-31523 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:13:15 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=9262#comment-31523 Andrew M: “hey, what if I want to know if the person is libertarian? What correlational question can I ask?”

Try ‘Do you like / have you read Ayn Rand?’ or ‘What do you think of the Tea Party?’ or ‘What do you think of Ron Paul?’ Sure, a lot of people who don’t like politics will probably be dissuaded, but this is likely to be a problem anyway if you’re quite political; might as well get it out of the way, if it’s something you’ll want to bring up.

… for that matter, try ‘Do you sneer at people ‘beneath’ you?’ ;P

Ooh! You could also try ‘What do you think of taxes?’ If they say something about how they’re the price we pay for civilization, it’s probably one of us eeeebil ‘statists;’ if they say something generically negative, they’re probably fairly politically moderate or uninvolved; if they launch into an uninformed rant about how all taxation is theft, you’ve almost certainly found someone like-minded, with whom you can happily elope to a country like Somalia without one of those pesky gubmints! ;P

(I keed, I know I’m playing off the Objectivist stereotype.)

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By: Taylor http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/comment-page-5/#comment-30621 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:52:13 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=9262#comment-30621 So, the correlation between highly religious people and being tolerant of spelling/grammar mistakes was by the author politely attributed to tolerance… the last time I checked those people are the worst example of human tolerance. Isn’t the obvious connection that these tend to be less educated people? At best, they’re not hypocritical about others’ poor writing ability. You can simply read through angry user comments from religious people for proof.

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By: Paul http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/comment-page-5/#comment-27820 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:29:31 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=9262#comment-27820 I think this is fascinating…who knew that seemingly “innocent” questions would mean more than we think?

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By: Katie http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/comment-page-5/#comment-27809 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:53:33 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=9262#comment-27809 I believe I buck the trends – I’m conservative but I prefer complexity, and people would consider me very religious but spelling and grammar mistakes really annoy me!

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By: Sinestrale http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/comment-page-5/#comment-27808 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:47:34 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=9262#comment-27808 As a Christian who tries her best not to mess her spelling and has often dismissed many an offer due to spelling and grammar mistakes, have you thought about re-evaluating the Christian-Religious/Spelling-Grammar divide along gender lines as well as belief lines? I’m sure you’d find that many of the religious/Christians that dislike bad grammar and spelling are probably women, since much of the female brain is attuned to verbal communication.

But hey, if you want to continue to discourage and marginalize Christians/religious people on your site by playing to the same old tired stereotypes, it’s your party.

*Sine*

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By: jerry http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/comment-page-5/#comment-27806 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:27:14 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=9262#comment-27806 need someone to love for aver and aver don;’t no one hare !!!!

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