Or relevant. It depends on the situation. * Buzzwords: http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/12/14/2010-top10-profile-buzzwords/. Well, okay, not entirely correct. Who answers this question "yes"??? More carefree? Here are some examples that have been done from LinkedIn :-), * Collapse of the financial industry: http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/02/18/linkedin-analytics-financial/ What is old? There are practical, insightful questions — then there are thousands of weirdly specific, bizarre, typo-laden questions (many of them user-generated) that form the weird, dark underbelly of the OkCupid experience.Â. If your match mentioned their pug named Fluffy or they have nine pictures with their polydactyl cat Theo, asking about their pet is a certified slam-dunk. Like with the buzzwords one – maybe they’re overused, but are people less likely (or more likely) to have a job if they don’t use the overused words? 9 Questions To Ask Your OkCupid Match To Get You Bonding Offline ASAP 1. The question is if they would consider sex, not if they’d actually do it. Is Dungeons and Dragons going to suddenly become relevant when the reckoning comes? (63% of OkCupid dates said they’d rather eat a pie) Though I guess the smallpox vaccine will be helpful when everything starts crashing down. Come on, there are lots of young, impressionable minds on OkCupid. If your match lists some of their favorite podcasts and you both like the same ones, ask if they have any new recommendations. Eating processed garbage and chicken parts of uncertain provenance is what makes us human. Going straight for the big stuff, aka the narcissists. If you've both been to the same spot or you think they'd really enjoy somewhere you just visited, inquire about a restaurant or store you found or suggest a new place for them to check out. Employed vs unemployed? Anyway, call me picky, but I'm gonna go ahead and eliminate drunk drivers from my potential matches, too. If your friends are your life or you're super close with your coworkers, sharing stories about the people you love (whoever they may be!) Or weed them out? In my high school environmental studies class, when studying the detrimental impact a pipeline through Alaska would have on wildlife, one girl asked: "If the animals are in the way of the pipeline, why don't we just, like, kill all the animals?" I think? is a great way to connect. My heart hurts. I'm starting to predict that I will be sad forever. The deal breakers. (Here’s a tip for all you dateless wonders – how about actually talking to a woman as if she’s a real, thinking human being. Ask your date if he or she likes the taste of beer, because: Among all our casual topics, whether someone likes the taste of beer is the single best predictor of if he or she has sex on the first date. I'm getting off-track. Copyright © 2007-Present FlowingData. If you're a … Is this a trick? penning the perfect opening line may seem daunting, other than the fact that it lists personal pronouns, OkCupid gives you your perspective compatibility. I’m still waiting for LinkedIn to start doing this sort of analysis. I swear to goodness when someone asks me what book I'm reading right now, I literally melt. the best questions to ask on a first date, OkCupid explores gay and straight stereotypes, Get a Date With Your Online Profile Pic – Myths Debunked, http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/02/18/linkedin-analytics-financial/, http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/04/08/linkedin-ninja-job-title/, http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/02/04/linkedin-super-bowl/, http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/01/26/linkedin-promotions-data/, http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/11/11/veterans-where-are-they-now/, http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/12/14/2010-top10-profile-buzzwords/. Nuclear is still the most common, but there are millions of households in the United States with a different family structure. Right? Nothing, my partner's privacy should be respected. I mean, yes? At least more accepting than OkCupid's algorithm. The notion that a series of questions can lead to love is appealing, as the recent popularity of the New York Times' "36 Questions" experiment showed. Ever since OkTrends revealed that "whether someone likes the taste of beer is the single best predictor of if he or she has sex on the first date," I've felt weirdly judged by this question. If you have suggestions, we’d love to hear them. OkCupid continues their analysis on the mysteries of the dating world, this time on the best questions to ask on a first date, or rather, the best questions to ask when you actually want to find out something else.Will your date have sex on the first date? If I go with grammar, am I betraying feminists everywhere? Answering the questions, you feel as though a strange but benevolent force is guiding you. Two decades out from the first statewide ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces, here’s who still smokes. Am I contradicting myself? If things got more serious, the cheating. I wonder what she's doing now. While, "Where is the one place you'd love to go?" Not the website's fault, really, and my brother reasoned that it was bound to happen because we both answered "yes" to this question and rated believing in dinosaurs as "very Important" — even though I've never been sure what "believe" means in this context. If that’s all you want, why not just ask – many times I wished the guy would just out with it (the question, I mean – anything else IS a bit over the top, and never worked with me.) When it comes to subjects like health care and retirement, we often think of old in fixed terms. I want to weed out potential power-hungry dictators from the dating pool right away. If you love to camp and your match has a picture of them on a fantastic hike, or you both mention road trips in your profiles, ask them about the next place they want to go to or their latest vacation. It's not a text. Still interesting though. Who am I? But if you're looking for a spiraling trip down a self-doubting rabbit hole so deep that you'll completely forget you were looking for a mate in the first place, well, OkCupid has got you covered. On OkCupid, you can define the importance of questions—from “A little” to “Somewhat” to “Very.”. Behind these hypotheticals lurks a dark world. How would my ideal mate answer this question? How many of these questions deal with bodily functions and toilets? TBH, "We can agree to disagree," was my least favorite thing to hear as a punky (read: bratty) child. And worried. "Look at their OkCupid profile and comment on something specific that you like.". These days my faith in astrology is about on par with my faith in the OkCupid algorithm, which is to say I can only really get behind it when it's comforting, affirming and telling me I deserve to be with someone really hot.Â. is a good start, being as specific as possible will make you stand out from the crowd. Please feel free to skip any questions that don't apply to you! If you're a big podcast fan (or if you just got into podcasts in 2019, like me), you're in good company on OkCupid. Yes, if he/she was sincerely sorry. But in light of all the thought I just gave to the approaching global catastrophe, maybe I should pick an animal that lives in the water? Not fascinated, just sad. How would this change my life? You can always discuss “hypothetical” options. I mean it’s more or less the same thing, except you’re trying to find a company to work for rather than a partner to, uh, have beer with.