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If you're more likely to reply, you're probably less picky. If you're less picky then you're likely to take the "shotgun" approach of messaging many people, regardless of whether it would be a good match. It shouldn't be surprising if a higher percentage of those people don't respond than to those who's approach is more targeted.

But to confirm this we'd need to see the average number of messages sent by each group of people.




Average number of messages sent (and received) by race/gender would be a good control for this study, I agree. That's a good point.




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