• Ben Matthews@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    That’s interesting. I wonder whether those 6519 surveyed are representative of whole population, or of people who anyway online a lot. It’s seems there was an inflection around 2012 - what happened then ? The curve ends during covid lockdowns, wonder whether deflected since ?

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      5 months ago

      Tinder launched in 2012. eHarmony and Match.com were pretty fringe sites but Tinder commodified and gamified the mechanics. That made online dating “fun”. Also we saw a huge growth in smart phones in 2010 to 2012

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      5 months ago

      Based on the one class I took in college about surveys and mass comm I’d say that’s a good sample size (assuming they were chosen at random). Most political polls survey about 1500 people with 90%+ accuracy

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        5 months ago

        But how, practically, do you choose any sample “at random” nowadays ?
        Especially if trying to avoid a bias towards (or away from) online people ?

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          5 months ago

          Great question! Back in the day we would pick names at random in the phone book so my info is pretty outdated