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by twirlip 596 days ago
... From a pool of respondents who follow this internet personality. She acknowledges that only 10% of her followers identify as women and may respond differently than their cohorts.
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However getting some paid responses and comparing them to the other respondents is surprisingly good methodology for a blog post. And I think it does show that while the results weren't identical they weren't wildly skewed either
That is incorrect. She got the same results from both her followers and from spending $1057 on Positly surveying people who are not her followers.

Sometimes people are right on the internet.

Yea, this is how I interpret the results.

'Men who watch porn self-identify as "knowing what women like"'. Quite a different insight.

The article compares men's predictions of women's preferences to women's stated preferences. They didn't ask men if they were good at predicting.

How could this support your interpretation?

I’m skeptical that people surveyed are being honest about their gender in the survey.

Tbf though looking closer it does appear that there’s a similar result in the paid responses as well so I might be being far too cynical.