Hillwilliam
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam Ask boi. She's the one who searched for the thread and brought it up as a rebuttal for my assertion of bias. ETA: If someone wants to do a statistically random search, share their methodology and show that there is no m/f bias among the posters when someone is having marital problems, I'd be glad to hear it but cherry picking doesn't cut it unless you work for FOX. I don't know if there would be a way to search it out, but it would be really neat to see percentages. Not just of the responses, but how many threads get created by males vrs females about fidelity (actual cheating, rather than open or whatever) and what the percentage is of the responses are negative. Kind of hard though because one person's negative isn't the same as the next person's. For example, on the thread I linked, you saw those replies as more helpful than I did and I saw the negative overtone where you didn't. Some of them are borderline but if you see the word "Scum or Slime or unethical or douche" it's pretty cut n dried. and if you see things like "wait 3 months and try it again" I call that helpful hints. The funniest part of my search was 2 posts referred to playing cards. They didn't get included in the results LOL. FWIW, here's my methodology. Search "cheater" any gender specific words such as husband or wife weren't used in the search as they would skew the results. Draw a grid with: Female subject, male respondent + Female subject, male respondent - Male subject, female respondent + Male subject, male respondent - F/M neutral F/F neutral M/M neutral M/F neutral The first letter is who the post is about, second is who is responding and the +/-/neutral is the tone of the response With 100 posts, you'd expect to see a dozen in each block because a few would just be off topic like card playing. Then you look for patterns. Are males more critical of males or females or neither? Are females more critical of males, females or neither?
< Message edited by Hillwilliam -- 8/13/2013 5:49:33 PM >
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