Alright so this is basically the guy's strategy (
Dr. McKinlay: if you are reading this and would like me to take it down, I will ask a moderator to do so.):
1. Optimize match percentage by answering the right questions and giving them the right importance level.
This consists of (a) figuring out which match questions the girls you want are answering and (b) Answering the ones with at least one answer choice that you're confident those girls will
not select. He gives the upshot of his statistical analysis, which is that the following rules generally apply:
How to answer match questions
- Avoid "divisive" questions. Answer only questions with one or more "throwaway" answers--answers that you're very sure girls won't pick. Then--and this is the crucial part--you choose as "acceptable" answers everything except the throwaway answer. An example would be a question asking whether you torture animals. You know the girl's not going to say she tortures animals so you confidently mark every answer other than "I torture animals" as an "answer I'll accept." This means the girl will be matched with you on that question as long as she didn't pick "I torture animals."
- If there aren't any throwaway answers to a question, play it safe: check every box under "Answer I'll accept," which will automatically set the importance of the question you assign to "irrelevant." This is useful for answering questions you want to answer anyway, or questions where you know what the girl is going to accept but don't have an answer that almost nobody will pick.
- The importance to attach to a question is dictated by the number of non-throwaway answers (e.g., a 4-answer-choice question where one of the answers is "I torture animals" has 3 non-throwaway answers). Questions with 3 non-throwaway answers get "Mandatory," questions with 2 non-throwaway answers (usually 3 total answers) get "Very Important," and questions with 1 non-throwaway answer (2 total answers, e.g. a yes/no question) get "Somewhat Important."
- Answer questions in the order of importance to the girl. Go to the girl's match questions and sort them by "She cares about" to order them this way.
2. Answer 500 questions.
First, delete all your previous responses to questions.
Next, find questions to answer by going to the "Questions" section of your profile and start skipping through the questions, answering them as described above. Answer 20 questions in this way.
Now, go to "Matches" and search for girls who like guys in your desired age range within 100 miles of you, ordering the search results by match percentage. Pick one of the top girls (I usually pick the hottest one in the top 3) and go to their match questions ("The Two of Us"). Order those questions by "She cares about" and answer 10 questions in the same way.
These are the girls you're going to optimize for so choose carefully at this stage.
Go back to the Matches section and do the exact same search again. Pick another girl and repeat the process with her match questions. Do this over and over until you've answered 500 questions, or you stop seeing new matches every time you search.
3. Seed your profile with common keywords.
The author mined the data for frequently-occurring words and topics. Imitate this by coming up with a list of likely keywords and do search for them individually, counting the number of 90+ matches that appear in the search results. Find places in your profile to strategically insert some of the highest-scoring words.
4. Get exposure
Allow your profile views to be public, and visit every profile of the girls you match. A script to automate this would be ideal, but you can also just do a basic local search, order it by match percentage, and ctrl-click on everything to open each profile a new tab. Each one of these clicks will show up as a profile view to the girl, and the idea is that a certain percentage of these girls will message you unsolicited after seeing you visited her profile. You can repeat this about once a week.
As an aside, I'm not sure whether this last step is advisable or not. I'm gonna stop after answering the match questions for now and see if that makes a difference, but the author claims he got about 1 message for every 10 profile views by taking this step.
I think that about covers it. The rest of the book is just him discussing what messages to send and what to do on dates, which you can safely ignore. Once you start getting messages rolling in just run your regular online game.