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Re:CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study by toomuchtodo on Friday August 09, 2019 @02:56PM (#20657301)
Not just Ashley Madison. Okcupid. Tinder. Grindr. That group sex site that was just mentioned on HN [1]. Any dating site that is laissez faire about their data and API access (ie all of them) is a trove of information for building a dataset of morally flexible individuals (when correlated against public records).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20650069

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Re:CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study by filoleg on Friday August 09, 2019 @04:07PM (#20657847)
None of those other sites are even similar to Ashley Madison. There is nothing morally wrong with dating using apps or being gay. But I expect most people to agree that cheating is definitely not morally clear.

In fact, the latter ones are so ubiquitous, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a person in a major US city in their 20s who was single for a period of time in the past 5 years and haven't used one of those apps.

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Re:CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study by toomuchtodo on Friday August 09, 2019 @04:08PM (#20657854)
The apps alone are not the signal. The app data combined with other data sources is the signal. It can demonstrate intent.
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Re:CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study by ambicapter on Friday August 09, 2019 @04:21PM (#20657960)
Intent to what? Date?
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Re:CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study by aidos on Friday August 09, 2019 @02:59PM (#20657320)
Tinder? I’ve never used it but it’s used by a lot of people I know for legitimate dating.
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Re:CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study by toomuchtodo on Friday August 09, 2019 @02:59PM (#20657324)
Tinder profile + public marriage record = possible hit. I know married folk who use Tinder (some ethically non-monogamous, some not so ethically), so some human review in your workflow would be required.

From previous experience consuming public record data sources programmatically, a proof of concept would take no more than a full day of work. I am not suggesting one do this, only that pandora's box is already open.

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