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>> 79% of respondents — college and graduate students around the country — said they don't use any dating apps even as infrequently as once a month. That numb

by siva7 3y ago

>> 79% of respondents — college and graduate students around the country — said they don't use any dating apps even as infrequently as once a month. That number doesn't check with what i'm observing on college students. It's more the other way around. I also got the feeling that for more than a decade every month some article claims the end of the tinder/bumble/etc age.

pavel_lishin 3y ago
> Methodology: This study was conducted Oct. 11-16 from a representative sample of 978 students nationwide from 2-year and 4-year schools. The margin of error is +/- 3.4 percentage points. The Generation Lab conducts polling using a demographically representative sample frame of college students at community colleges, technical colleges, trade schools and public and private four-year institutions. Maybe there was some bias they didn't account for; a thousand students isn't that many.
- chomp 3y ago
  A thousand is enough for a representative sample.
  - ericpauley 3y ago
    Could be the people that spend time answering random surveys online and the people that use dating apps are different.
    - nvm0n2 3y ago
      It's not even clear how they were recruited. Generation Lab says only that it was via proprietary methods i.e. they won't tell you. Why not? Is there anything so sensitive how they got in touch with students? Normally, polling firms are more open. It suggests they don't want you to know where their lists came from (could be as bad as MTurk).
  - bluGill 3y ago
    It is enough, but only if you collect a good sample. I'm not sure what a good sample is. In college I'd expect a big difference between undergrads and grad students (as students get older they are more likely to settle down with someone and marry, so even seniors vs freshmen should show a difference)
  - itointegral 3y ago
    This is absolutely false in lots of scenarios, one of them being when you're dealing with a heterogenous population, which seems to be the case here.
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  - rjmunro 3y ago
    Indeed. Also a larger sample doesn't help with "some bias they didn't account for", it just marginally narrows the margin of error.

by siva7 3y ago

pavel_lishin 3y ago

> Methodology: This study was conducted Oct. 11-16 from a representative sample of 978 students nationwide from 2-year and 4-year schools. The margin of error is +/- 3.4 percentage points. The Generation Lab conducts polling using a demographically representative sample frame of college students at community colleges, technical colleges, trade schools and public and private four-year institutions. Maybe there was some bias they didn't account for; a thousand students isn't that many.

chomp 3y ago
A thousand is enough for a representative sample.
- ericpauley 3y ago
  Could be the people that spend time answering random surveys online and the people that use dating apps are different.
  - nvm0n2 3y ago
    It's not even clear how they were recruited. Generation Lab says only that it was via proprietary methods i.e. they won't tell you. Why not? Is there anything so sensitive how they got in touch with students? Normally, polling firms are more open. It suggests they don't want you to know where their lists came from (could be as bad as MTurk).
- bluGill 3y ago
  It is enough, but only if you collect a good sample. I'm not sure what a good sample is. In college I'd expect a big difference between undergrads and grad students (as students get older they are more likely to settle down with someone and marry, so even seniors vs freshmen should show a difference)
- itointegral 3y ago
  This is absolutely false in lots of scenarios, one of them being when you're dealing with a heterogenous population, which seems to be the case here.
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- rjmunro 3y ago
  Indeed. Also a larger sample doesn't help with "some bias they didn't account for", it just marginally narrows the margin of error.