A unique method for determining compatibility between people who, in the
preferred embodiment, utilize an interactive internet dating service.
Users complete a compatibility questionnaire, first describing themselves
and then describing their "ideal match" on questionnaire items whose
response options vary between two extremes. The user defines a search
based upon demographic information for an "ideal match." The pool of
completed self assessment questionnaires of current users is searched by
the computer utilizing the search parameters defined by the user. Pearson
correlation coefficients are computed upon the items in the users "ideal
match" questionnaire and the pool of self assessment questionnaires
defined by the search. The "ideal matches" are ranked and reported as
percentile scores that are obtained from a norm group of correlation
coefficients for each gender. Percentile scores are also reported in
similar manner for each content scale of the compatibility questionnaire.
The user is able to search for an "ideal match" utilizing separate
content scales from the compatibility questionnaire as well as with
combinations of content scales from the questionnaire.
