I too think that into a dating site a matchmaking system is needed and appreciated by members, but the only possible way to do it is just providing a "data/informations percentage matching".
This is just my opinion:
Every serious and professional psychologyst will tell you:
a) when filling personality tests people answer what they like to answer or what they think it's right to answer
b) test results provide just "basic" informations that psychologist has to detect, assess and verify
c) personality is a very complex characteristic and cannot be measured by numbers/algorithm or defined by few adjectives
d) psychologist absolutely "need" to directly talk with the person and interview him
All those mean that doesn't exist a test to profile/measure personality.
Moreover, considered that we cannot profile personality with just a test, it has no sense to compare people/personalities and suggest who to meet or not... Our suggestions could be totally wrong.
To finish, in the real life you can see two similar personalities that behave differently with a same third person.
I think it's a lie and not honest to tell people that is possible to (1) profile their personality with only tests and (2) help them to find their match using the results of a test.
Just my opinion.
Last edited by orange_slice (2011-06-12 13:25:40)