Top 47 Christian Rudder Quotes
#2. Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.
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#3. to hire women based on their looks is to (statistically) guarantee poor performance.
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#4. Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be loved all the more by others. And, specifically, a woman's overall sex appeal is enhanced when some men find her ugly.
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#5. You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works - you're saying something about yourself that begs a conversation and that's what the users are there for.
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#6. people can feel the math behind things, especially, thankfully, moms.
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#7. There are times when a data set is so robust that if you set up your analysis right, you don't need to ask it questions--it just tells you everything anyway.
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#8. Women are much more discriminating. I think both types of people are equally interested in having an attractive partner. But women essentially give the thumbs up to only half as many guys as guys giving the thumbs up to women.
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#9. men and women perform a different sexual calculus. As Harper's put it perfectly: "Women are inclined to regret the sex they had, and men the sex they didn't.
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#10. When you see people in middle management dickering with their Fitbits in the elevator, you know the Quantified Self movement is here to stay. The
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#11. A great piece of advice for online dating is to stand out from the crowd. So greetings like "hello" and "hi" are very common. They do less well than things that are a little bit quirky or a little bit weird, like "howdy" or "holla." The rarer your salutation, the better it does, in general.
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#12. Because the way love works in general, you don't need everybody to like you somewhat - you need one person to like you a lot.
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#14. Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.
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#15. Algorithms are crude. Computers are machines. Data science is trying to make digital sense of an analog world.
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#16. the DOLLY Project (Digital OnLine Life and You) - it's a searchable repository of every geotagged tweet since December 2011,
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#17. If Big Data's two running stories have been surveillance and money, for the last three years I've been working on a third: the human story.
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#18. Text is, in some ways, on the way out, unfortunately. There are dating sites now that are just pictures.
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#19. There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.
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#20. Twitter actually may be improving its users' writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters - it
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#21. Sometimes, in the face of an infinity of alternatives, a straightforward result is all the more remarkable for being so.
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#22. A person's "like" pattern even makes a decent proxy for intelligence - this model could reliably predict someone's score on a standard (separately administered) IQ test, without the person answering a single direct question.
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#23. Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.
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#24. Online, you can always get what you want. But what you need, that's a much harder thing to find.
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#25. This is the echo of the approaching train in ears pressed to the rail.
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#26. Buy something at a retailer, and your PII (personally identifiable information) attaches the UPC to your Guest ID in the CRM (customer relations management) software, which then starts working on what you'll want next.
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#27. From empathy and sexuality to science inclination and extroversion, statistical analysis of 122 different characteristics involving 13,301 individuals shows that men and women, by and large, do not fall into different groups.
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#28. Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes.
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#30. The highbrow/lowbrow schizophrenia of Twitter never stops amazing me. It's the Chris Farley of technologies.
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#31. People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages.
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#32. Nostalgia used to be called mal du Suisse - the Swiss sickness.
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#33. when you read findings like the one above, and see that Jamal doesn't get the job, it's easy to shake your head at the few racist hiring managers who've tilted the odds against him. But the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn't a problem of outliers. It is pervasive.
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#34. The average message is now just over 100 characters - Twitter-sized, in fact.
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#35. If we want to pick the point where a man's sexual appeal has reached its limit, it's there: forty.
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#36. if "over the hill" means the beginning of a person's decline, a straight woman is over the hill as soon as she's old enough to drink.
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#37. inside the white man rages a music festival for lumberjacks.
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#38. If employers begin to use algorithms to infer how intelligent you are or whether you use drugs, then your only choice will be to game the system - or,
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#39. It's practically common sense that men should have unrealistic expectations of women's looks, and yet here we see it's just not true.
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#40. We noticed recently that people didn't like it when Facebook 'experimented' with their news feed. Even the FTC is getting involved. But guess what, everybody: if you use the Internet, you're the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That's how websites work.
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#41. Bass Ale's triangle logo was the first registered trademark in the English-speaking world, and today that sturdy oldness is a big part of the brand's appeal.
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#42. At the very least, the data they sell means you get to use genuinely useful services like Facebook and Google without paying money for them. What we get in return for the government's intrusion is less straightforward.
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#44. Technology is our new mythos. There's magic in some of it, undeniably.
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#45. In any group of women who are all equally good-looking, the number of messages they get is highly correlated to the variance: from the pageant queens to the most homely women to the people right in between, the individuals who get the most affection will be the polarizing ones.
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#47. I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.
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