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They're not surveys, and that's exactly the point. Surveys reveal how people claim to behave, which may nor not be how they actually think they behave, which m
by mpweiher 4y ago
They're not surveys, and that's exactly the point. Surveys reveal how people claim to behave, which may nor not be how they actually think they behave, which may or may not be how they actually behave.
If they were surveys, your criticism would be valid.
Instead, this was about how people actually behave, so neither fooling themselves nor others.
- pksebben 4y agowhether it's a survey or not is a straw man, and you know it. it's bad faith to argue along these lines given that the primary criticism leveled was regarding sampling. if you want to back up your point, speak to that. how does this show anything about the ~99% of people who have never used okcupid? on what grounds do you believe okcupid to be a representative sample?
- npc12345 4y ago
- mpweiher 4y ago> whether it's a survey or not is a straw man No it's not. The post I replied to mentions "survey" four times, once per sentence. It mentions "sample" once. > on what grounds do you believe okcupid to be a representative sample? On what grounds do you believe okcupid to not be a sufficiently representative sample? UPDATE: it was 4 times, not 3, so once per sentence.
- concordDance 4y agoDo we have reasons to think the non representativeness would have been relevant to these conclusions?
- matsemann 4y agoWhat if you're bi, but for a long term partner through match.com you're mostly interested in the opposite sex, vs your behavior other places for more casual hookups? What if you're bi, but not that open about it so you mostly take the chance on the opposite sex on a public dating platform? There must be so many other factors like these that at least should invalidate any broad claim by a company only seeing a small part of people's behavior and sexuality.
- lelanthran 4y ago> What if you're bi, but for a long term partner through match.com you're mostly interested in the opposite sex, vs your behavior other places for more casual hookups? Then why on earth would you put down "bi" in the profile?
- pseudalopex 4y agoWhy would you not?
- lelanthran 4y ago> Why would you not? What kind of a stupid question is this? If you only want interest from a particular gender, why advertise that you want interest from all genders?
- vintermann 4y agoWell, people at Okcupid. Back then. We don't know how well it generalizes.