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OkTrends

I just found out that dating (and time-wasting personality quiz) website OkCupid has a blog where they take information provided to them by their users and plot it in some rather fascinating ways. They brag that their pool of survey takers is about 100 times as large as the average Gallup Poll.

If that boast is an attempt to claim a higher level of accuracy, it’s important to remember that of course it ignores a rather high level of self-selection bias, and that OkCupid being a dating site will no doubt skew the results (and the questions and answer choices themselves) significantly. Still though, some of their graphs and charts are very interesting, especially where they deal with sticky subjects like sex, politics, religion, and most especially, ethnic relations. Here’s a few of the ones I thought were the most interesting…

(click the images to see the full blog posts they were taken from)

 

If you knew for sure you would not get caught,
would you commit murder for any reason?

Rate Your Self-Confidence


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