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Aella
@Aella_Girl
man, if id ever escorted in my years of sex work i definitely would have kept a spreadsheet detailing aspects of each encounter so i could figure out if there were correlations between e.g., my orgasm rate and attractiveness of client shame i havent done that
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Melanie Weisner
@melanieweisner
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@Aella_Girl
How many encounters do you think it would take to acquire a relevant sample size? (For example, in tournament poker, it takes thousands of tournaments to even get close to knowing what true ROI is-- I'd imagine the volatility/variables in escort encounters would be immense)
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@melanieweisner
I mean isn't this what p-value indicates, the % chance that your result is 'random' or 'not indicative'? If the correlation is weaker, then it takes many more data points in order to be more confident, which makes me think tournament poker is a ton of very weak correlations
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Melanie Weisner
@melanieweisner
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@Liv_Boeree
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@Aella_Girl
Interesting. I've never considered poker hands "weak" correlations but I guess they have to be given the massive volatility. Incomplete/hidden information must weaken it even further. BUT--volatility to this degree is an inherent part of the data we are trying to measure, and
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