(26/04/2011 09:50 PM)eKusoshisut0 Wrote:  :O
Last time I checked I was closest to ProperBritish, not anymore obviously. I've never really understood the MAL compatibilty. I can only assume that it means wee have the same tastes in anime or something similar..?

It's just a simple correlation, rescaled from [-1,1] to [0,100].  I think this rescaling is dumb and causes misunderstandings, but that's a discussion for another day.

(26/04/2011 10:48 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  If you want to think of it that way, then yes.  I personally like to think of it as yet-another-stupid-statistic-to-try-to-encourage-social-networking - perhaps something more interesting than a "you have 9001 friends, 53.536% of which are female, 15.48% do not know their gender" etc.

Well, pretty much.  But it's somewhat more interesting than how many friends you have on facebook.