[Noisebridge-discuss] OKCupid: how to get a response

Sai Emrys noisebridge at saizai.com
Tue Sep 29 23:11:26 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil
<gian.pablo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically the ad for the 'guy' received as many responses in a week as
> the 'girl' did in 20 minutes.

That's not quite the same, though. There could well be far more
straight guys looking on craigslist than straight girls. That's not
really interesting from this standpoint.

What you want to know is the *percent* response rate.

IOW, your friend committed the base rate fallacy. :)

- Sai



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