{"id":15543,"date":"2015-08-27T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T18:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15543"},"modified":"2015-08-27T14:35:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T19:35:42","slug":"almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-madison-database-ever-used-the-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15543","title":{"rendered":"Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When you look at the evidence, it\u2019s hard to deny that the overwhelming majority of men using Ashley Madison weren\u2019t having affairs. They were paying for a fantasy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-madison-database-1725558944\">Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The question is, how do you find fakes in a sea of data? Answering that becomes more difficult when you consider that even <em>real<\/em> users of Ashley Madison were probably giving fake information at least some of the time. But wholesale fakery still leaves its traces in the profile data. I spoke with a data scientist who studies populations, who told me to <strong>compare the male and female profiles in aggregate, and look for anomalous patterns<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at the evidence, it\u2019s hard to deny that the overwhelming majority of men using Ashley Madison weren\u2019t having affairs. They were paying for a fantasy. Source: Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15543\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[532,718,1112,1227],"class_list":["post-15543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-analytics","tag-data-security","tag-data-sets","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15545,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15543\/revisions\/15545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}