Re:Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular
by Gigachad on Saturday April 30, 2022 @08:12PM
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This kind of stuff is pretty widespread. One of the major dating sites published a stat showing woman ranked 80% of men as below average attractiveness while men ranked 50% of woman as bellow average. They had to pull the post because it was explosive. I assume no tech company will ever post stats on the data they have showing some kind of meaningful social observation again.
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Re:Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular
by oynqr on Sunday May 01, 2022 @03:19AM
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That was OKCupid, why they actually published it is beyond me.
Re:Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular
by scotty79 on Sunday May 01, 2022 @03:29AM
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Why wouldn't they?
They published a lot of very interesting anonymized stats back then.
Would you rather not know?
Re:Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular
by Gigachad on Monday May 02, 2022 @12:11AM
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I think from their perspective, publishing it was a mistake. A lot of companies publish anonymized user stats but usually they don't say or mean a whole lot. I'm pretty sure OkCupid didn't intend to get in the middle of a hot political topic and prove that the incel movement might have a point.
I imagine a lot of tech companies are holding on to some extremely volatile truths about society that they do not want becoming public.
Re:Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular
by scotty79 on Monday May 02, 2022 @03:05PM
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I think it was in times when OkCupid had a soul bacause original founder was still with them (or at least his spirit). And his goal was for people to better understand each other and themselves not just suck up cash from the hornies.
I completely agree with you that's completely insane decision from the point of view of soulless corp that just wants to suck people dry.