DR. JAMES DONALD LAWSON, PH.D.
Social Work at Center Ridge Rd, Cleveland, OH

2005016, Jul 28, 2005

Jan 28, 2004

10/766342

James Lawson - Rocky River OH, US

G09B003/00

434322000

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.