I don’t think OKCupid contains a good way of tracking long-term romantic success once a relationship escapes from the site, but it certainly has the data to correlate any one of several personality metrics with length of correspondence, which strikes me as a half-decent proxy: there’s a huge library of personality tests on the site, including some well-known ones like the MBTI and the Big 5. OKTrends has almost certainly touched on this before, although you’d probably have to apply a lot of logical glue yourself to get a theory to stick together properly.
OKC’s primary metric, however, relies on self-selected answers to a large pool of crowdsourced questions. If there’s been any academic research done in that exact space I’m not aware of it, but it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to view correlations between match metrics and actual romantic success as answering the question “how well do people know their own romantic preferences?”—or conversely to see academic answers to that question as informing OKC’s methodology.
I don’t think OKCupid contains a good way of tracking long-term romantic success once a relationship escapes from the site, but it certainly has the data to correlate any one of several personality metrics with length of correspondence, which strikes me as a half-decent proxy: there’s a huge library of personality tests on the site, including some well-known ones like the MBTI and the Big 5. OKTrends has almost certainly touched on this before, although you’d probably have to apply a lot of logical glue yourself to get a theory to stick together properly.
OKC’s primary metric, however, relies on self-selected answers to a large pool of crowdsourced questions. If there’s been any academic research done in that exact space I’m not aware of it, but it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to view correlations between match metrics and actual romantic success as answering the question “how well do people know their own romantic preferences?”—or conversely to see academic answers to that question as informing OKC’s methodology.