I had a few minutes to spare yesterday evening so I checked my okcupid account (yes, I online date but perhaps this topic is best reserved for another post at another time). In my usual disinterested fashion I checked my matches and saw the all-time-high 98%match with <insertname>. I clicked on his profile, poked around a bit and noticed he was highly educated, close in age and reasonably attractive (win, win yes?). Fortunately I am the type to mull over a person’s profile before even considering making contact….sometimes days will pass before I bother to ‘put myself out there’. I clicked a few other links, checked out photos, took note of his interests, and worked my way to the ‘questions’ page. (Caveat: For those of you who don’t know, the ‘questions’ section of okcupid allows you to answer preset questions about politics, religion, goals, kids, career, sex, relationships, etc in order to help others get to know you better. You can also rank the importance of these questions so that the okcupid robots…. err, I mean algorithm, can match you with like-minded individuals). Anyways I’m on his questions page and looking at questions that are important to him, and of course, his answers. ONLY TO FIND that Mr.98% match answered “Yes” to the question “Are you racist?” WTF!! Keep in mind that after answering each question on okcupid you are given the opportunity to ‘explain yourself’ if necessary. This area was left blank. I won’t bother to speculate further about the answer or this guy either, other than to say sometimes you NEED to judge a book by its cover – and this cover says No Coloreds Allowed!
From herein I ought to give greater consideration to the 45-75% match range since 98% somehow has a larger margin of error – work that math out and get back to me.
Peace
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