Waiting to Collide


Quantifying Love Using Weighted Scoring
December 29, 2009, 12:54 am
Filed under: nerdtastic

1. Establish which qualities are most important to you in a mate (e.g. intellectual compatibility, domestic compatibility, child rearing, sexual compatibility, mutual hobbies, etc.).
2. Assign these qualities a score between 1 and 5, indicating level of importance relative to each other. If you are uncertain of the importance of a quality for whatever reason – possibly uncertain if it will come into play, such as “child rearing” – assign that quality an arbitrary variable.
3. Score the individual on how well they satisfy each quality. I used a 1-5 interval again, but you can increase your interval for greater precision.
4. Multiply the individual’s score for each quality by the relative importance of that quality and add the individual quality scores together for one overall score.
5. (optional step) You can translate this raw score into a percent satisfaction grade by dividing the raw score by the maximum satisfaction (relative importance by max possible grade, add all scores).

Please note that you need to isolate variables, if you use them, as they will alter grades when/if they come into play.

(This is how the world appears to an INTJ.)

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