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OkCupid,2.8M profiles out of 3.2M tested, open to all by default

by yakamok on 5/9/16, 11:13 PM with 21 comments

  • by minimaxir on 5/9/16, 11:27 PM

    By sheer coincidence a research dataset containing OKCupid data was released today: https://osf.io/p9ixw/

    I looked through it and it's very robust. I should have a few data visualizations up using it soon.

  • by cshimmin on 5/10/16, 6:25 AM

    To the author: scientific notation (with only 2-3 digits of precision) would make most of this much more readable. Also avg and std deviation are usually more informative than avg + max. Or better yet just make a histogram (probably with log axes). Cool article!
  • by _asummers on 5/9/16, 11:23 PM

    Totally not important to the content of the article, but to the author: your date line is broken. It's saying it was published on 2016-0-0, currently.
  • by bcherny on 5/9/16, 11:27 PM

    Are you saying 42% of profiles are empty? That would seem to indicate that OkCupid is really puffing up their MAU numbers.
  • by serge2k on 5/9/16, 11:21 PM

    > My personal opinion is that profiles should be set as private by default as people don't often investigate the options they have, even i didnt realise my profile could be viewed publicly by the rest of the world.

    It's a dating site.