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This is so hilarious that it feels wrong to nitpick it. But in the interests of science, this survey technique: A scan of Twitter reveals a lot more people talking about actually using Match.com than Plentyoffish... ... is like a freshman-class exercise in Spot The Sample Bias. Twitter users are hardly a representative sample of the online population, let alone the population at large.
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Right. But why's half the thread treating it like an actual analysis?
Because people have no sense of humor? Beats the hell out of me, and I wrote it. They're debating it on the comments of the post itself, too. I thought it was pretty obviously tongue-in-cheek, but maybe I should have suggested that Markus was secretly an alien or something.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right. But why's half the thread treating it like an actual analysis?
Because people have no sense of humor? Beats the hell out of me, and I wrote it. They're debating it on the comments of the post itself, too. I thought it was pretty obviously tongue-in-cheek, but maybe I should have suggested that Markus was secretly an alien or something.