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

[Gian Pablo Villamil]

Not sure that was his point ;)

Did you see what the experiment really was? (It's an art piece)

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:
> 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
>