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Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site

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Stanford has a higher acceptance rate at 5.7%. Yes, you have a better shot at getting into Stanford than getting lucky on AM.

50% of you...

fantastic.

question is: will this deter new male sign-ups?? will this cause male cancellations? logic says it should.

i would love to see similar analysis on Zoosk, another site that i personally believe has zero female activity. i also personally believe that they are much more aggressive on the fake account creation due to their monetization scheme (seeing seeing female profiles triggers male money purchases)

One site I went to didn't manage their databases well, so I got a like from someone who said "My hobbies are NULL".

Basically every dating site has this problem. I think it's linked to the usage pattern every site devolves into - men say yes to everything and women are extremely selective.

Fascinating. If this holds up and is well publicized this has the potentially to change the nature of a revelation that someone had signed up for AM. The "honey, I signed up in a moment of weakness, but look, nothing happened" argument gets a lot more plausible if their really were no women on the site.

The followup to that though, is whether they were hooking up with other married dudes...

why doesn't that seem to interest anyone?

Actually, I liked the detective work (former fraud hunter here); good use of statistics to spot implausible patterns.

It's interesting because it's likely they were shill accounts created by the company to give the appearance of having active female users so that males would pay for a chance to hook up. It's not uncommon in the online dating world though. I'm pretty sure that's how most of those sites start out. I'm wondering if it's bordering on fraud though?

It's not bordering on. It's definitely fraud. The whole point is to deceive in order to achieve financial gain. Not all fraud is a crime. Proving false advertising, in this case, might be both challenging and amusing.

shouldn't the question be were the content of the communication the male population obviously engaged in came from?

edit: typo

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