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They left out the axis on the "message reply rate" diagram as a teaser for the next blog post. I just copy and pasted the image onto the axis. It shows that wh
by codexon 17y ago
They left out the axis on the "message reply rate" diagram as a teaser for the next blog post.
I just copy and pasted the image onto the axis. It shows that white and native American males are more likely to get responses than the other races.
http://www.codexon.com/temp/mrr.png http://www.codexon.com/temp/mrr.png
And I wrote a small analysis here if you can be bothered to take a look.
http://www.codexon.com/posts/okcupid-dating-statistics-shows-racism-very-much-alive http://www.codexon.com/posts/okcupid-dating-statistics-shows...
- camccann 17y agoAssuming they didn't deliberately shuffle the ordering just to confound people like you. Your results look depressingly plausible, though, so I'm guessing not.
- potatolicious 17y agoAs a single male Asian I am praying that the first row isn't me. But odds are it is anyway :( It certainly conforms with stereotypes about Asian girls...
- araneae 17y agoYou're lucky to be an Asian male... look at the black male line. It's the only one that doesn't have a single green square. EDIT: Also, look at the response line from black females; they're all green except for the yellow square in response to black males.
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- codexon 17y agoI addressed those concerns in a comment on my website.
- Gormo 17y agoAs an aside, I can't help but wonder if OKCupid intentionally left the reply rate chart unlabeled and unexplained, knowing that some people would post an analysis on their own blogs and generate some viral goodness. Brilliant strategy if so.
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- roundsquare 17y agoNice, thanks for this. However, I think one critical component is missing (from what OKCupid posted, not from your analysis). Who sends the first message? For example, we are seeing a lot of green in the black female column. Does this mean that: a) Black females reply back a lot? b) Lots of men reply to black females? These two results would mean entirely different things. The first means that black females aren't picky, the second that men like black females.