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

[Tom Longson (nym)]

Followup article on races and religions:
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/09/29/how-races-and-religions-match-in-online-dating/
<http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/09/29/how-races-and-religions-match-in-online-dating/>
Cheers,
Tom Longson (nym)
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil
<gian.pablo at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >
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