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by CactusOnFire 1835 days ago
I became a Data Scientist because in 3rd year, I found the OKCupid data blog and realized their research had methodological soundness these "20 undergraduate lab students forced to be there" research never would.

You trade 'shot-in-the-dark lab experiments' for 'a clear and obvious agenda'. The trick is to just make sure the agenda isn't morally reprehensible.

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more than one third of the entire world population believes that OKCupid is "morally reprehensible" (!)
This is an interesting statement. Do you have links to something more I can read? Who thinks dating sites are morally reprehensible?