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Escort monthly income by BMI, from my escort survey I've had open for a while. Sample size is still kinda low, like n=~30 per bin, and this is sampling escorts online enough to take my survey, but there still looks like a trend I'd expect. Interesting to see the degree of impact!

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Calling this a sample seems sort of generous

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Can you share a better dataset on this?

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What does that have to do with the quality of this one?

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Well if this is the best one in the world, then what's your point? "This thing you've just made is shit, even though I have nothing to offer & it's the world's best" makes you sound a bit cunty. "Gut instinct > imperfect data" would also be a pretty weird take.

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If it’s bad how does it help?

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This is a survey of like 150 people, showing a clear trend. This is *obviously* informative. Like, what are your priors based on if you don't think that this is worth updating off?

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You are asking me why I don’t think self-reported income and BMI data from an online survey of 150 people with no demographic or geographic data and no weighting might not tell me that much about a particular industry?

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it might not tell you much, but it tells you something. Data doesn't have to update you a huge amount to be valuable. It's all just collections of variously weighted data points.

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Right, the issue is it’s not clear if the thing you’re being told is something like “people online who self-report being tall and thin also self-report higher incomes”

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i thought 'escort survey' meant people understood it was escorts taking a survey and thus it's all self reported (not sure how it'd be possible gather info *without* self reports in this area tho)

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The self-reporting in itself isn’t a big deal, it’s the fact that you don’t really control for anything or have any way to independently verify the information. Perhaps there isn’t a way to do that, but that also means that it’s just not going to be that useful