Do Women Get Better craigslist Classified Responses?
Do dating classified ads on craiglist favor women over men? Simon Owens, author of Bloggasm, a blog focusing on online media and journalism, seems to think so, and he has some numbers to prove it.
Owens found that not only did females receive twice as many responses as males, but the quality of the responses was far greater, containing far more information, including pictures and respondents’ ages.
Here’s how Owens’ experiment went down:
I created fake ads for straight female and males in three different cities: DC, New York and LA.
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