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Re:OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "... by steveklabnik on Thursday June 10, 2010 @07:46PM (#1422198)
This sounds like something that they'd do. Those guys are serious math nerds.

> There may be some ethical considerations here of course.

Reading OkTrends, I'm pretty sure they're not worried about it.

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Re:OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "... by camccann on Thursday June 10, 2010 @08:19PM (#1422269)
Not that they don't have standards--I'm sure they're very careful not to release anything that would reveal private information about specific, identifiable users.

Other than that, yeah. Those guys pretty much do statistics for the lulz. I would not be surprised at all if wzdd turns out to have been correct...

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Re:OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "... by steveklabnik on Thursday June 10, 2010 @08:33PM (#1422298)
Since I didn't get one of these letters, I'm pretty sure he is. ;)
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