Coffee Meets Bagel Meets Me – Statistical analysis of online dating

Re:Coffee Meets Bagel Meets Me – Statistical analysis of onl... by hurin on Thursday January 22, 2015 @07:52PM (#8932789)

I don't know what's more worrying, - the turn everything into data as an industry, or how happy individuals apparently are to apply it to themselves.

Take this with a grain of salt. The statistics of course (well on a larger scale than this article could take aren't wrong) but that an individual is ready primarily to evaluate their own choices in terms of them is rather scary.

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Re:Coffee Meets Bagel Meets Me – Statistical analysis of onl... by girvo on Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:11PM (#8933069)

Did you read her conclusion? It's not all that serious, just a cute bit of fun. Nothing wrong with that. Besides, everything is data already; regular boring introspection is just "data mining" with terrible sample sizes because of memory, and bad statistics because of biases. ;)

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Re:Coffee Meets Bagel Meets Me – Statistical analysis of onl... by hurin on Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:16PM (#8933080)

I wasn't specifically referring to her analysis, indeed as you point out with those sample sizes and the number of potential conflating factors it's unlikely this data is statistically worth anything -

I was commenting more on the general approach, of evaluating ones actions or choices within the context of a statistical framework.

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