Emil O W Kirkegaard

Wasted opportunity for researchers you mean? The book was basically an expose of what we know are inconvenient truths. No?

Yes, that' what I meant. It's a great dataset that could tell us a lot about human mating, and how to improve it. Instead, it sits behind locked doors used for only a few analyses done by non-experts. What a pity!

No doubt. Perhaps b/c no 'gold-standard' measures of constructs 'experts' reluctant to make use of?

I see. So it is *not* publicly accessible? Or only the part yo published in standard format? I imagine you need someone on board to develop a 'scraper' as well?

Most academics are not capable of scraping a dating site, so while the data is public, it's not in a suitable format (read: SPSS friendly).

What % of academics in social sciences you think know how to use SAS/Mplus/R? .csv .txt