OrganicDroid t1_irynydu wrote on October 12, 2022 at 12:39 AM

Meh.

> “Litam and her colleagues surveyed 718 U.S. adult participants who ranged in age from 18 to 71 (average age 29). The sample included 348 OnlyFans users (219 male users and 129 female users).” “…Of the total sample, 285 self-identified as college/university students with the remaining 433 from MTurk”

Needless to say, as you can see, there are those in this thread heavily defending the point that “OnlyFans users are no different than the average person,” etc. Can I get an “….ehhh idk”?

Well, check their sample. It’s not that large, and over a third are women. Surely, this isn’t random. And over half surveyed are from one university - yet, you can make a headline ambiguous like this.

Eskanasi t1_irywxmd wrote on October 12, 2022 at 1:49 AM

what sample size do you need before its big enough to be statistically significant in this context of surveys?

OrganicDroid t1_irz2tmn wrote on October 12, 2022 at 2:36 AM

Open to other thoughts, but generally it doesn’t matter. Obviously, more is better if taken from a diverse pool - but when the sample is more concentrated to one university, it’s hard to see much validity no matter how many you have.

Strazdas1 t1_is0f8qz wrote on October 12, 2022 at 12:10 PM

For a system with 175 million users, assuming you somehow can get the survey of of a good distribution (not just students in US) you start at 2000-3000 datapoints and go up if you want above 95% confidence.

StereoFinalAccount t1_is4ys9l wrote on October 13, 2022 at 10:25 AM

Why would they be different? Any reason to think that?

The world has changed. Everyone watchs porn, everyone is lonely, to a degree.

OrganicDroid t1_is58h2i wrote on October 13, 2022 at 12:10 PM

Everyone watches porn, of course.

But not everyone pays for some sort of fake online relationship.

StereoFinalAccount t1_is59ya0 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 12:24 PM

I dont pay for it either, but I doubt that they are very different from you or me.

There are people that are into BSDM. More or less, accepted by mainstream society. There are more potential for abuse in it than onlyfans yet is more accepted.

Truth be told, who cares about how other people get off. If it affects your flourishing it must do very slightly compared to anything else on this world.