Finally looked at the OKCupid paper, and their data collection methodology is a bad joke.pic.twitter.com/9BbWtxDU9p
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Only need one profile to see the answers, but perhaps you are trying to get the "accepted answers" as well?
As far as I can tell, you have no way to tell whether you have a valid sample of active users.
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