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Interesting to me: rate of reply seems inversely correlated with likelihood of reply. That is, if you're likely to reply, other people are less likely to reply
by emmett 17y ago
Interesting to me: rate of reply seems inversely correlated with likelihood of reply. That is, if you're likely to reply, other people are less likely to reply to you.
My guess is that both of these things are correlated with social status. People with high social status are likely to be sought after (high rate of reply to their messages) and less likely to deign to reply (low rate of reply to others messages). It's well known that white males are perceived with highest social status, and black women with lowest, so these results make perfect sense in that context.
- tlrobinson 17y agoIf you're more likely to reply, you're probably less picky. If you're less picky then you're likely to take the "shotgun" approach of messaging many people, regardless of whether it would be a good match. It shouldn't be surprising if a higher percentage of those people don't respond than to those who's approach is more targeted. But to confirm this we'd need to see the average number of messages sent by each group of people.
- emmett 17y agoAverage number of messages sent (and received) by race/gender would be a good control for this study, I agree. That's a good point.