Re:Facebook Now Responsible for 25% of Hooker Hookups
by tokenadult on Saturday February 05, 2011 @07:24AM
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The data reported in the interesting submitted article, based on research in one place by one field investigator, do not support the generalization to the headline of the submission here.
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Re:Facebook Now Responsible for 25% of Hooker Hookups
by civilian on Saturday February 05, 2011 @01:33PM
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Yeah but he talked to 290 women! That's a lot of data...
Re:Facebook Now Responsible for 25% of Hooker Hookups
by bugsy on Saturday February 05, 2011 @01:50PM
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Also the 25% number is from the article itself and represents measured empirical data from that pretty large sample set.
One could say with more precision, 25% of hooker hookups in Manhattan come from Facebook and there is just cause for that, it's not a fabricated headline.
If one wants to then say it doesn't even stand for Manhattan because there was not a survey of all prostitutes, one would have to discard pretty much every national survey result and medical study under the same reasoning.
Re:Facebook Now Responsible for 25% of Hooker Hookups
by tokenadult on Saturday February 05, 2011 @08:25PM
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If one wants to then say it doesn't even stand for Manhattan because there was not a survey of all prostitutes, one would have to discard pretty much every national survey result and medical study under the same reasoning.
That would be a good idea. But see Peter Norvig (director of research at Google) for what else would be desirable in most research studies: