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The more in-character response from OkCupid would have been to make a new OkTrends blog post that plainly analyzed the data underlying the removal of the origin
by giberson 16y ago
The more in-character response from OkCupid would have been to make a new OkTrends blog post that plainly analyzed the data underlying the removal of the original article.
Data Points:
Dollars Received From match.com | Articles removed
$0.00 | 0
$1.00 | 0
.. | 0
$50,000,000 | 1
Followed by a witty analysis of how statistically, 50,000,000 influences the on goings of OkCupid.
- nopassrecover 16y agoDefinitely and it would have been hilarious + turned a "have they gone evil?!?!" set of internet comments into a hilarious "ah that makes sense aren't they funny!" pat on the back. Then again, they probably did their research, realised they didn't want to make a big deal about this, that the people who noticed probably aren't their biggest customer base, that they don't want to bring this to the attention of Match.com and that they don't want their customers freaking out about upcoming payments.
- aarlo 16y agoNo, because that's too simple. It only has two variables (money and dollars received). The real-life case has tens of important variables