[cwb71]

> So, after each blind date, you ask the participants, "would you go on a date with this person again?"

Does anyone know if Crazy Blind Date actually does this?

One of the great mysteries of OkCupid to me is that they do not attempt to collect this information. There is no "I met this person" button which then asks how it went and whether the match represented themselves accurately.

It seems like this would be an extremely valuable data point. There must be some reason that the feature doesn't exist, but I don't see what it is...

[majormajor]

IIRC, when I closed my account in 2010 after meeting someone off-line, one of the options for "why are you leaving" was "in a relationship with someone I met on OKCupid" and I think it had an option for selecting who.

So between that and knowing if you're still messaging new people after messaging someone else for a while, I think they pick up a lot of it.

[saryant]

They might just do some sort of mining on the messages. I imagine it'd be simple enough to pick out conversations setting up a meeting and then just measure if the messages continue after that or not.

[jhenkens]

That would give a lot of false negatives, and most likely false positives as well. I presume a lot of first dates, if they are successful, include exchange of an external mode of communication, killing the use of OKCupid messaging between these two people.

[saryant]

True, I hadn't thought about that. (Haven't ever gotten to that point on OKCupid...)