Operation Match claimed to rely on a 75-point questionnaire to make the perfect pairings, but the truth was simpler. “The first thing we did was to make sure they were in the same area,” co-founder Jeff Tarr later told a documentary-maker. “Mostly girls wanted to go out with boys who were the same age or older, their height or taller, the same religion. So after we had these cuts, then we just kind of randomly matched them.”