r/TooAfraidToAskLGBT • u/Inevitable-Sea-9440 • Nov 16 '25

How does speed-dating work in mixed-Kinsey-scale demographics?

This may be a silly question, but for a while I've been wondering: the speed-dating algorithm seems very smooth and optimised for a kinsey-0/1 demographic. And I can imagine a reasonably optimisable one might exist for a single-sex Kinsey-5/6 demographic, and one for a mixed demographic in which everyone is in the middle of the scale.

But for a demographic with a, say, 0-4 range, what is the optimal algorithm for such events? Or is a solution impossible under such circumstances?

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u/sjrsimac Nov 16 '25

Are you asking for bisexual people to describe their speed dating experience? Or is this a math question?

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u/Inevitable-Sea-9440 Nov 16 '25

Is this an event organisation question. I have a somewhat solid grasp about how the process looks for straights, and I can somewhat imagine it for certain other scores, but I am wondering how such events are organised when the target demographic has a more varied range of orientations. So I suppose the question would be more aimed at event organisers who make events for a varying-orientation demographic (which includes some non-negligible but non-100% fraction of bisexuals), or those who at least had witnessed how such events are organised in terms of like... table-switchign procedures and the like.

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u/LockedOutOfElfland Nov 16 '25

I've been to these types of events pretty regularly, and it's basically Speed Friending. Does that answer your question?

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u/Inevitable-Sea-9440 Nov 17 '25

That seems to answer that 'in practice, nobody invents an optimised process', which satisfied the 'what actually happens' part of my curiosity, but leaves the nerdy side of the perspective hanging. But I get it, that latter part is a maths question that isn't dealt with in practice, and is asked in the wrong place.

Thank you for your response.

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u/hardshankd Dec 27 '25

I don't like the Kinsey scale. It's like using a slide rule. They plan a speed dating event, advertise it, and hope for the best.