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If I were running that site I would be interested in sending that email to a randomly-selected half the userbase and then seeing if and how they behaved differe
by wzdd 16y ago
If I were running that site I would be interested in sending that email to a randomly-selected half the userbase and then seeing if and how they behaved differently on the site. After all, the letter says both that you, personally, are more attractive, but also acts as kind of guarantee that the people you are being matched with are more attractive too.
There may be some ethical considerations here of course.
- steveklabnik 16y agoThis sounds like something that they'd do. Those guys are serious math nerds. > There may be some ethical considerations here of course. Reading OkTrends, I'm pretty sure they're not worried about it.
- camccann 16y agoNot that they don't have standards--I'm sure they're very careful not to release anything that would reveal private information about specific, identifiable users. Other than that, yeah. Those guys pretty much do statistics for the lulz. I would not be surprised at all if wzdd turns out to have been correct...
- steveklabnik 16y agoSince I didn't get one of these letters, I'm pretty sure he is. ;)
- Dunearhp 16y agoThis is what I think they are doing.