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Isn’t this textbook yellow journalism?

• rippercushions 4y ago
  No? Yellow journalism would be to use these results for headlines like "1 IN 50 AMERICANS WANT TO RAPE BABIES".
  • Q6T46nT668w6i3m 4y ago
    Log transforming this data isn’t far off.
    • kergonath 4y ago
      What do you mean by “log transforming”? Are you bothered by the log plot? You really should not be: it’s done for one purpose, make the bottom more legible, as she wrote explicitly. Look at any scientific journal and you’ll find loads of plots with log scales. And at least in my fields, no mention of “log transforming” anything.
      • Q6T46nT668w6i3m 4y ago
        My issue isn’t the scale itself, my issue is the scale used for _this_ data. I don’t know exactly what kind of reply you are expecting to your second sentence.
• ffssffss 4y ago
  It's a little sensational but I feel like she's pretty up front about the limitations. The problem with representativeness is admitted, not really engaged with (I'd expect a more thorough study to compare with older results with better understood biases and extrapolate from there), but it's not hidden either. I think the main problem is actually that Aella herself is not a faceless researcher but a somewhat controversial online personality who used her own brand to find participants. So for example anyone who blocked her on twitter probably didn't have a chance at taking this, even if they are also likely to be closer to kink communities than the average twitter user who wouldn't even know of her existence.
  • kragen 4y ago
    what is controversial about her