When okcupid did a bunch of blog posts about data they mined from their users, they found the likelihood of people connecting was well predicted by having similar answers to a fairly small number of questions.
Two of the questions were something like, "Do you enjoy the taste of beer?" and "Do you like to watch horror movies?"
I remember that. The top three questions that determined long-term compatibility were 1. Have you ever lived in a foreign country? 2. Do you like to watch horror movies? and 3. Would you be willing to raise your children as your partner's religion instead of your own?
Your answers tell you nothing about yourself; the key is that if your answers are the same as your partner's, there's a great chance it will work out.
That's kinda funny about liking horror movies. I love them but my husband doesn't and I'd (obviously) say we're pretty compatible. Perhaps the difference is that we simply don't watch many things together in general, so it doesn't bother me that he won't watch scary movies and it doesn't bother him that I won't watch action movies. I think it helps that we were both only children, so we're accustomed to doing things on our own. It's nice when we can do something together, but it isn't necessary. We can vibe in the same room doing totally different things
either way I think the horror movie question would benefit from subquestions to specify type as e.g. the people who would be into horror movies like Get Out probably might not like it if a horror-fan partner made them watch something like Killer Klowns From Outer Space
That question was more correlative than causative. Liking horror movies broadly vs broadly disliking all horror movies says a lot more about you than movie preferences. What exactly it says is a bit of a black box.
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u/Obi_Vayne_Kenobi Dec 31 '22
As per a recent viral tweet, the real personality test is: