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This report would seem more damning if the authors had at least attempted to keep their bias out of it. I found it significantly less credible because of it. I
by erdojo 11y ago
This report would seem more damning if the authors had at least attempted to keep their bias out of it. I found it significantly less credible because of it. I kept wondering what info they weren't sharing in their rush to paint Airbnb as liars and cheats. Or if their own data, which has no external validation either, is true.
Someone also made a good point here regarding Airbnb's motives. It is entirely feasible that Airbnb did a cleanup of bad/illegal listings before submitting data for government scrutiny.
- uxp 11y agoI mostly agree. A site called insideairbnb.com that is clearly not affiliated with the company looks to be simply a muckraker blog about AirBnB. But, the data does not lie. If they purged somewhere around half of all Full Home listings to make their export look like there were very few landlords that listed multiple properties, then they are manipulating data. One does not "clean up" data to be submitted to the government without providing an explanation for that purge.
- Riod 11y agoIf they cared they would have done it long ago. They chose to make money off those listings instead