Steven Leckart and his happily married wife signed up for various dating sites to see if they would get matched to one another. The results from one of the sites:
Although it's strange that OkCupid never connected us, we're rated an 85 percent match. That's comforting, especially since OkCupid's own CEO admits that he and his wife of 8 years are a 75 percent match.
But he also expressed concern:
A typical online dater spends an average of 12 hours a week screening but only 2 hours dating. Not a good return. So Linda devised a system—you know, to maximize her cost-benefit ratio. We had agreed at the outset to construct our profiles honestly—not to simply enter intel we think will point to each other. She focuses on guys with beards (just like me!) who hold "solid jobs" (not me) and who mention her specific interests, like old country music (me again).
I'm annoyed.
All my wife's likes and dislikes—the ones I've had to learn over time—are right there on the screen for some other guy to capitalize on. To make her short list, all he has to do is declare, "Me too!" More troublesome is the fact that I don't satisfy all her requirements. I'm a full-time freelancer. I haven't held a traditionally "solid" job for years. If Linda were to stumble onto my online profile as a single woman today, she might pass.
The Dish 