Palko points to this breakdown of a junk news story. The fake-survey-to-headline pipeline reminds me of a credulous Wall Street Journal story from a few years back.
But, yeah, with respected news sources repeatedly falling for ridiculous scams like the hyperloop or the idea that UFOs are space aliens or mind-body healing etc etc etc., I guess we shouldn’t be shocked that they will uncritically report on a junk survey. It’s that insatiable need for fresh content.
Check the Palko link. Now it seems it is only visible to people who have signed into bluesky.
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i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked
“this” is: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/americans-romantic-relationships-ai-chatbot-study-b2838217.html
From The Independent, “Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says”