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Friday, October 22, 2010

So Much In The Numbers


OkCupid, an online dating service:

We selected 526,000 OkCupid users at random and divided them into groups by their (self-stated) race. We then took all these people's profile essays (280 million words in total!) and isolated the words and phrases that made each racial group's essays statistically distinct from the others'.


See more interesting results from this research

[ via Guillo ]

- jelsen