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Here are my results for five different communities. What do you think the discrepancy in answers is caused by?
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4 upvotes, 25 comments. Yik Yak poll by Anonymous in OnlyPolls. "Here are my results for five different communities. What do you think the discrepancy in answers is caused by?"
Mostly different people voting
Mostly social desirability bias
50/50 of above
Something else
224 votes
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Anonymous 7w

The community you posted in.

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Anonymous 7w

There's a group called "Sluts" 😭

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Anonymous 7w

sample size

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Anonymous 7w

You also had different voter pool sizes for each post

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Anonymous 7w

some girls have more sensitivity shallower and some deeper. maybe personal preference should be taken into account?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

Yes that’s what the first option is

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 7w

I don’t see how it’s not obvious lol

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

I’m in all of those groups and voted once in every different league just to see the answers. So did my friends in sex advice we did it to troll you, so you gotta take 25 votes from each and just cancel them 😂

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

😂

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

I think there’s less social desirability bias when there are women who self identify as sluts

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

You mean more

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 7w

all of them got over 30 votes that’s generally a good sample size

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

u asked what i think the discrepancy is caused by😭 i think its the fact that in the scheme of things 30 is a relatively small sample size. u can disagree but thats what i think

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w
post
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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

No, less. In the dating communities, they’re gonna say size doesn’t matter because that’s the socially acceptable answer

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

… that’s an indication of MORE social desirability bias

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

Yes, and I said the sluts will have LESS so they won’t say that size doesn’t matter.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

It would be less if you took findings from a private poll. But bc you did it publicly, there’s MORE. You can’t create LESS social desirability bias in PUBLIC forum especially when that forum HAS A NICHE like being a SLUT

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

I AM TELLING YOU THAT THE SLUT COMMUNITY HAD LESS SOCIAL DESIRABILITY BIAS THAN THE ONLYPOLLS AND THE DATING COMMUNITIES

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

I AM TELL YOU YOURE WRONG AND IF ANYTHING ITS THE ONLYPOLLS THAT HAS LESS BC THERES NO PRESSURE FOR ANYONE TO BEHAVE OR VOTE A CERTAIN WAY!! YOU HAVE IT BACKWARDS

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

In a neutral setting, you will feel a desire to to answer in a way that is socially desirable. In a setting that is already socially undesirable, you’ll answer truthfully

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

In a neutral setting, you will answer in a way that is true to yourself. In a niche setting, you will answer in a way that is true to the niche

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 7w

Idk why people are commenting without knowing about survey methods. 30 is considered sufficient. It's the condition for the Central Limit Theorem. This sample size is no worse than regular science.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 7w

Your claim is that the selection of participants didn't affect the answers, instead that the variability is natural and random, caused by the small sample size. Seems to be a very strong statement given things like selection bias. Now if you want something to point fingers at there's tons of confounding factors on this kind of survey on an anonymous "private" social media app anyway

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 7w

that is not at all what im claiming😭 if the sample size was larger it would likely have more variability & therefore be more representative of the general population (if thats the population op is looking to represent). thats what i mean. i agree there r def other variables at play here & by listing sample size as a potential issue im not attempting to rule out the other issues just listing one i see as problematic that no one else had mentioned

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