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New Chatroulette Stats: 13% are Perverts
- jgrahamc 17y agoPervert seems a bit judgemental. The more interesting fact is that something like 13% of the population (assuming I can extrapolate) would like to show others their genitals. I wonder what the true stat is for the population.
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- dsplittgerber 17y agoDid you take a close look at what warrants including a person into that group? Edit: parent comment deleted
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- jackowayed 17y agoBut you can't extrapolate. A lot of people heard about chatroulette and heard that it's filled with perverts. The average person is a mixture of intrigued and scared by this, but an exhibitionist will definitely want to give it a try. So there's a huge selection bias.
- markbnine 17y agoUK. . . what's up with the high percentage of perverts? Too much BBC?
- rbanffy 17y agoSo, 89% male gives us 11% female. If the perverts are equally distributed between male and female, you get about 2% female perverts. It's easier to go to a bar.
- chrisbolt 17y agoThe article addresses this: Of the perverts that were identified, only 8% were female. Combined with the overall female rate, that means less than 1% of chats feature a female pervert.
- nostrademons 17y agoThe stats that Techcrunch cites don't actually match up with its conclusion. If 13% of ChatRoulette users are perverts, and of the perverts, 8% are female, then 0.13 * 0.08 = 0.0104 (or slightly, barely, more than 1%) are female perverts. If it had been "of the females, 8% are perverts", then it would be under 1%.
- novum 17y agoOn a related note: Chat Roulette Piano Improv is fantastic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32vpgNiAH60 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32vpgNiAH60
- 3dFlatLander 17y agoI feel like the real story isn't twitter/chatroulette/whatever, but these awesome things artists do with them. Shitmydadsays comes to mind.
- angelbob 17y agoHey, you don't know how many normal-looking people are perverts. It could actually be way more than 13%! :-)
- tibbon 17y agoWe published similar findings on March 1 with the Web Ecology Project http://www.webecologyproject.org/2010/03/chatroulette/ http://www.webecologyproject.org/2010/03/chatroulette/ When we were doing the research the geo-ip information wasn't factored in, but overall we saw quite similar. Good to see that the results are reproducable (almost like science)!
- matwood 17y agoLooking at random pictures on the chat roulette map is pretty disturbing lol. I wonder if these people knew a) they were being tracked and b) they picture was being saved would they have still done what they did?
- Jim72 17y ago13%? That's all!? I figured it would be much higher, especially since 89% of the users are male.
- borism 17y ago13% is not enough for you? you, pervert!
- Qz 17y agoI wonder what the stats would have been if it hadn't been plastered all over the media as the 'new cool thing'.
- mburney 17y ago"less than 1% of chats feature a female pervert." This is really disappointing news for most hackers.
- char 17y agoAnd 13% is just the average! I was on the other night during what must have been a perv peak (20%). It was slightly terrifying.