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475 points danielstocks | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0.74s | source
1. bjornsing ◴[] No.27303095[source]
Interesting that all the screenshots have a (typically) female name, and the reporter seems female. Could be chance of course, but a quite low likelihood if the sampling is truly random... Can’t help thinking what kind of bug could cause that. :)
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2. nrmitchi ◴[] No.27303220[source]
> quite low likelihood if the sampling is truly random...

If you're assuming their user base is 50/50 male/female, which for many apps is not a valid assumption.

If I remember how to do math correctly, 50/50 gives 5 random users all being female ~4%. And 80/20 split is closer to 40%.

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3. bjornsing ◴[] No.27304313[source]
True. My implicit assumption was 50/50 or predominantly male, but I could be wrong of course.

4% is a pretty low likelihood though. Far below the level that would warrant further exploration in this kind of situation.