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The abstract fails to mention that:

> Survey respondents were recruited in January 2020 through > Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk; Amazon Inc., Seattle, WA, > USA) platform

which is a tiny fraction of the group of women who use online dating apps/websites, and is most likely quite unrepresentative as a sample.

That in itself makes the conclusions, IMHO, invalid.

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In fairness, their qualifiers probably filter out a fair bit of what's likely very unrepresentative about the Mechanical Turk pool--although I'd probably still expect it to trend poorer than the online dating pool overall.

The survey was developed by Quatrics who I've actually used and seem to be a good outfit.

Entirely agree.

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