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>in a surprisingly data driven way

If you think posting sporadic 4 choice polls about sex to a population consisting of gooners following a porn actress and prostitute on Twitter constitutes "data driven", then I can see how you would find Aella to be an intellectually engaging person.



Yes that constitutes being data driven, why wouldn't it? It's tautological that if a person who works as a porn actress and prostitution puts out polls on Twitter, the population of people who answer those polls will consist of people who follow a porn actress and prostitute on Twitter, but why does that affect the quality of the data? How can you evaluate whether someone counts as a "gooner" or not based on whether they follow a specific person on Twitter or answer a poll about sex?


>but why does that affect the quality of the data

If I poll only insurance company executives on whether the country should do away with private insurance and switch to universal healthcare, I haven't really done anything "data driven", have I? Taking a fat shit in my toilet "generates data", but I wouldn't call that visit to my bathroom "data driven", would I? Collecting sex poll responses from people who follow porn stars who specialize in rape and similar fantasy porn does not collect any data except what extreme porn consumers think about sexuality, which is of little use to making generalizations.

>How can you evaluate whether someone counts as a "gooner" or not based on whether they follow a specific person on Twitter or answer a poll about sex?

Following porn stars is absolutely gooner behavior, so yes, it makes a person a gooner.


The 4-choice polls are not the "data driven" bit — she has run several much larger questionnaires that have had hundreds of thousands of responses.

I follow Aella on Twitter because I find her interesting. Not a gooner.


Finding Aella insightful is like finding Lex Fridman insightful or something similar. Being a midwit is as embarrassing as being a gooner.




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