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I wonder if "god" faired so poorly because it was in lowercase, as it fails the first advice: "Be literate." Christians are careful to use it as a proper noun,

I wonder if "god" faired so poorly because it was in lowercase, as it fails the first advice: "Be literate." Christians are careful to use it as a proper noun, God. So if the word christian faired well, and god did not, it seems like it's a turn off because you're probably not really a Christian as opposed to the fact you mentioned God.

benatkin 17y ago
I doubt it. I'm willing to bet that they did a case-insensitive search. Not only does it make more sense for making these charts, it's also the default in SQL and in most full-text search tools.
- felideon 17y ago
  Then the discrepancy baffles me.
blasdel 17y ago
Pretty sure all the comparisons are case-insensitive. Several are even explicitly stemmed for plurals.
swolchok 17y ago
Compare "Oh, hey, I see you're a Christian too." and "I hope we can grow and enjoy God's love together.". The latter seems to connote much more devotion than the former. I would bet that "God" is more likely to be used in a devoted sense than "Christian". I would further bet that the devoted can find each other at church and/or devoted language from a man to a woman in the first contact doesn't come off well. (Disclaimer: poster is an atheist who was raised Christian but does not intend to bash religion in this particular post.)
- lucumo 17y ago
  Might also be because of things like "god damnit, ur hot". I got the feeling that they didn't really look into confounding variables, like common sentences that trigger multiple rules.
  - felideon 17y ago
    Right, that's more or less what I was thinking.
- felideon 17y ago
  I agree with "I hope we can grow and enjoy God's love together." being a little freaky to tell someone online.
Batsu 17y ago
"God" is also sprinkled fairly liberally around some common phrases. "Oh my God" comes to mind, shouldn't be hard to think of a dozen others on your own. I can't stay if these conditions are accounted for, of course.
roundsquare 17y ago
I wonder how well mentioning religion to a person who puts religion on their profile vs mentioning to someone who doesn't compares. They say "Christin" doesn't help as much as atheist, but I would bet that people who put "Christian" in their profile respond more...
- khafra 17y ago
  On their first post on this subject, I asked if they were going to do some response modelling based not only on the message, but on profile features like spirituality, math ability, desire for love, etc. No reply, unfortunately.
  - andreyf 17y ago
    No reply, unfortunately. There's a joke here somewhere...
    - roundsquare 17y ago
      Maybe khafra should have put "zombie" in the first post?
      - hughprime 17y ago
        The main problem, I think, was opening with "hi ur pretty"
- alxp 17y ago
  OKCupid seems to attract a hipper crowd more likely to not be religious, compared with eHarmony which has a pretty clear Christian vibe to it which would likely attract users who would reply more readily to 'god' than 'atheist'.
  - roundsquare 17y ago
    Well its probably true that eHarmony will attract more Christians than OkCupid. But I wonder if Christians or atheists are more likely to try OkCupid. According to Wikipedia, 78.4% of people in the US are Christian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States I wonder what the numbers show for OkCupid members.

benatkin 17y ago

I doubt it. I'm willing to bet that they did a case-insensitive search. Not only does it make more sense for making these charts, it's also the default in SQL and in most full-text search tools.

felideon 17y ago
Then the discrepancy baffles me.

blasdel 17y ago

Pretty sure all the comparisons are case-insensitive. Several are even explicitly stemmed for plurals.

swolchok 17y ago

Compare "Oh, hey, I see you're a Christian too." and "I hope we can grow and enjoy God's love together.". The latter seems to connote much more devotion than the former. I would bet that "God" is more likely to be used in a devoted sense than "Christian". I would further bet that the devoted can find each other at church and/or devoted language from a man to a woman in the first contact doesn't come off well. (Disclaimer: poster is an atheist who was raised Christian but does not intend to bash religion in this particular post.)

lucumo 17y ago
Might also be because of things like "god damnit, ur hot". I got the feeling that they didn't really look into confounding variables, like common sentences that trigger multiple rules.
- felideon 17y ago
  Right, that's more or less what I was thinking.
felideon 17y ago
I agree with "I hope we can grow and enjoy God's love together." being a little freaky to tell someone online.

Batsu 17y ago

"God" is also sprinkled fairly liberally around some common phrases. "Oh my God" comes to mind, shouldn't be hard to think of a dozen others on your own. I can't stay if these conditions are accounted for, of course.

roundsquare 17y ago

I wonder how well mentioning religion to a person who puts religion on their profile vs mentioning to someone who doesn't compares. They say "Christin" doesn't help as much as atheist, but I would bet that people who put "Christian" in their profile respond more...

khafra 17y ago
On their first post on this subject, I asked if they were going to do some response modelling based not only on the message, but on profile features like spirituality, math ability, desire for love, etc. No reply, unfortunately.
- andreyf 17y ago
  No reply, unfortunately. There's a joke here somewhere...
  - roundsquare 17y ago
    Maybe khafra should have put "zombie" in the first post?
    - hughprime 17y ago
      The main problem, I think, was opening with "hi ur pretty"
alxp 17y ago
OKCupid seems to attract a hipper crowd more likely to not be religious, compared with eHarmony which has a pretty clear Christian vibe to it which would likely attract users who would reply more readily to 'god' than 'atheist'.
- roundsquare 17y ago
  Well its probably true that eHarmony will attract more Christians than OkCupid. But I wonder if Christians or atheists are more likely to try OkCupid. According to Wikipedia, 78.4% of people in the US are Christian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States I wonder what the numbers show for OkCupid members.