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

[Gian Pablo Villamil]

This is interesting, apropos of religious/racial bias:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tom Longson (nym) <tomlong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Followup article on races and religions:
> 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:
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>> Not sure that was his point ;)
>>
>> Did you see what the experiment really was? (It's an art piece)
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>> 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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