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Meeting a potential mate for the first time – regardless if he’s a playmate, bedmate, or future husband – a million questions pop into your mind. Determining how suited he is for the role in your life you’ve planned for him means delving into his psyche with a ginormous list of questions ranging from his favorite color to his favorite position, to more esoteric matters such as his belief in a supreme being, his stand on capital punishment, and how big of an ass he thinks Mitt Romney is. Enquiring minds want to know. But if it is your gonads asking the question, it turns out the only query you need put forth is if he likes the taste of beer.

We all know plying the hottie you just met at a bar with ample libations is a good way to score a night in bed. Unfortunately, all too often that means a night in bed with some asshole who passes out before you get his pants off. Thanks to the mathematical geniuses at OKCupid, an online dating site that loves to compile and analyze the preferences of their 776 million members, you can save yourself from a hefty bar bill as well as the risk of listening to your latest conquest praying to the porcelain god all night by instead of asking, “Can I buy you a beer?” asking instead “Do you like beer?” If he says yes, there’s an excellent chance he’ll put out. No need to order a round, just grab him and haul his ass home to your bed.

Who knew life could be so easy? Or that hanging out at NASCAR races could get you laid? And yup, smells like science to me.

Christian Rudder, cofounder of the free dating site, uses his background in mathematics to analyze the ‘hundreds of millions’ of user interactions on his site, as well as the various dating preferences and social attitudes of users. From his research Christian says you can learn some pretty intimate things about a person from just a single question.

In one of his analyses, “The best questions for a first date,” Rudder studied millions of answers to the question “Would you consider sleeping with someone on the first date?” The answer that emerged was that the single best predictor of saying “yes” was whether or not the person liked the taste of beer. And this question was a good predictor, whether the respondent was a man or a woman, gay or straight. Nice to know that regardless of whether or not the guy you zeroed in on is gay or straight, if he reaches for a Bud there’s a good chance he’ll be willing to be your bud for the night because beer-lovers are 60% more likely to be okay with sleeping with someone they’ve just met.

Unfortunately in the dating game guys lie. Well, okay we lie all the time, but even more so when we are scheming on how best to get laid. So Mr. Hottie may take you for a oenologist and say no even though he usually has a six pack for breakfast. No worries. There are follow-up questions. You have a 83% chance of scoring if he answers yes to the question, “In a certain light, wouldn’t nuclear war be exciting?” And when you place the blame for world destruction on his shoulders by asking, “Assuming you were in the position to do so, would you launch nuclear weapons under any circumstances?“ your odds only drop by 1% if he answers yes. The world may end but as long as you got your, who cares?

Good for the libido but possibly not the most reassuring for your future together – or your future period – is if he says yes to the question, “Could you imagine yourself killing someone? “ If you live through the night there’s an 82% chance you’ll get laid. Before you get laid out.

If you are thinking husband material instead of a night of fun, the best questions to ask are not what you’d expect. Members of the dating site replying to a survey Rudder ran thought the best questions to ask of a potential mate to determine compatibility were: 1) Is God important in your life?, 2) Is sex the most important part of a relationship?, 3) Does smoking disgust you? And that makes sense. If you can find a godless sex addict who smokes like a chimney your future certainly should be looking rosy. But the data mined by Rudder says otherwise.

It’s all about agreeing on a basic philosophy for life and Rudder found that 32% of all successful couples agreed on the answers to: 1) Wouldn’t it be fun to chuck it all and go live on a sailboat? 2) Do you like horror movies? And, 3) Have you ever traveled around another country alone?

The answers to those questions as linked to a personality trait called sensation-seeking. Rudder’s data suggests that incompatibility on sensation-seeking may be even more important than incompatibility on religion, sex, and smoking. Of course determining if he is a top or bottom, when it comes to compatibility, is an even more important indicator of how well the two of you well get along.

Oh, and if that godless thingy really matters to you but you don’t want to ask about his religion specifically, or remind him that the evening you have planned for the two of you may well send him on his way to hell, ask him instead, “Do spelling and grammar mistakes annoy you?”

If he says ‘no’ and is okay with bad spelling and grammar the odds of him being only moderately religious are slightly better than two to one. It seems that while Jesus never mentioned punctuation, devoutly religious people have a low tolerance for people who rely on their spell checker or who are easily confused by commas.

That’s an interesting juxtaposition with the results of an analysis Rudder conducted last year. In that study he crunched the numbers on half a million users comparing religious belief with writing level and found, regardless of their specific faith, users who were the least strict in their religious beliefs write at the highest level.

Rudder’s research can be useful for any guy out looking to score a hottie for the night whether it’s for a one night stand or a long life devoted to each other. But then the only question that seem to matter to most guys is, “How big is your cock?”

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