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Re:Why you should never pay for online dating (OkCupid) (2010) by jules on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:29PM (#33165391)
> They just run regression on it and anything with p<00.5 that seemed fun was published.

How do you think science operates in actual practice? OkCupid at least has a sample large enough that you can commit all sorts of statistical sins and still produce halfway decent conclusions, unlike your run-off-the-mill n=10 study.

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