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burgers | 11 years ago

This has nothing to do with my "fantasyland" or wanting everyone to be equal. Its about making racial and other generalizations without publishing the full data with it. Racial and gender generalizations are dangerous things for a society. If you are going to go down the road of pointing out these things, you need to do it with extra caution and transparency.

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beachstartup|11 years ago

i can tell you're going to have a great time with this thought-police hobby of yours. there's so much for you to do out on the internet!

selimthegrim|11 years ago

Look man, we're not making this shit up to make you feel bad. I got absolutely nowhere on OKC when I still had "Indian" listed as ethnicity. (male born and raised in USA) For months at a time. Only when I left it blank did people start messaging me at all.

DanBC|11 years ago

The point seems simple: don't claim to be doing research if you're not actually doing research. If you're just kludging user submitted data and a bunch of user clicks into Excel for your blog posts don't try to claim it has any more validity than "shit we made up".

beachstartup|11 years ago

'burgers' has never had to think about it, and doing so offends him. 'dangerous' conclusions. LOL. it's seriously amazing how fucking oblivious people can be to the world that goes on around them, isn't it?