Friday, July 30, 2010

So OkCupid posted an article - The Big Lies People Tell In Online Dating.
Where they went and "trended" data from their website to address the typical dating myths such lying about your height and posting outdated pictures.
Now I'm a sucker for statistical things like this, and I must give them credit for having some sneaky strategies to debunk these myths. Like getting into the text tags created by cameras for the pictures uploaded on the site to see how "vintage" they were.

Kind off topic but my favorite statistics related website is by far - GapMinder. Where they've compiled a lot of statistical data(mostly from UN) from around the world and provided a very cool visualization tool or you to play around and trend things like CO2 emissions or HIV rates around the world over different parameters. The guy who developed the software,Hans Rosling, also has lots of cool videos on the site. His big thing is "dispelling common myths about the so-called developing world". Of course, statistical data is easy to screw to fit your argument, but I still really like what he has to say.

Things like this make me think that maybe I should consider statistics for grad school. Who knows...

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