• MF_COOM [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Also what exactly is the control group here? How different is 79% from that of other demographics?

    I'm in a different age cohort, and I would be very surprised if more than 1 in 5 of my friends were using dating apps as often as once a month.

    • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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      8 months ago

      so much this

      "News" sites should stop trying to do statistics or anything resembling science communication, they're dogshit at it

      At least some of them will have historical data to compare, but this doesn't even have that

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Presumably most people in relationships aren't on dating apps, and a lot of people are in relationships... it doesn't even limit this to single people lmao

      • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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        8 months ago

        you'd think that but there was a post a while back where the only reasonable conclusions were that bros have shady standards of "in a relationship" or everybody under 30 is way way more gay than anyone thought because "maybe women tend to date older men" didn't explain how big the gender relationship gap was.