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Analysis Reveals Almost No Real Women On Ashley Madison

gurps_npc writes: Ashley Madison claimed to have about 31 million men and 5.5 million woman enrolled. Those odds are not good for the men, 6:1. But unfortunately, most of those 'women' were fake. This researcher analyzed the data and found only 12,000 actual, real women using Ashley Madison. That means for every 7750 men, there were 3 women. There are reports that Ashley Madison paid people to create fake female profiles. Their website admits that 'some of the users may be there for "entertainment purposes."' The article itself is well written, including a description of the analysis. A charitable person would say that Ashley Madison was selling a fantasy, not reality. But a realist would say Ashley Madison is just a thief stealing money from lonely, unhappy men.

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  1. Aha! by nospam007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ' Their website admits that 'some of the users may be there for "entertainment purposes."'

    Not to confuse those with the 'professional' cheaters.

    1. Re:Aha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      >However she had hundreds of men to pick from. I had maybe a few dozen to pick from.

      I am sorry the website did not present you with a wider selection of men.

    2. Re:Aha! by narcc · · Score: 4, Funny

      If they're fakes, you've either been taken or you'll need to pay extra.

    3. Re:Aha! by nospam007 · · Score: 3, Funny

      "I made up a fake profile on Classmates under the name of "Fuckyou Fakename" and within 24 hours I had notifications that "several" of my old classmates (including some females) had "read my profile" and "wanted to connect". And some of them had snippets of text that was grayed out with only the first few words showing, like "Hi there, remember me? I always..." (grayed out text....)"

      Dammit, you missed the chance to meet that Nigerian princess.

  2. Really? by Maury+Markowitz · · Score: 5, Funny

    " That means for every 7750 men, there were 3 women"

    So does that mean there were 2583 men for every woman?

    Can someone put this into football fields for me?

    1. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      " That means for every 7750 men, there were 3 women"

      So does that mean there were 2583 men for every woman?

      Can someone put this into football fields for me?

      It means it would've resulted in one hell of a gang bang. Would've been difficult not to make eye contact with another dude during that one, that's for sure ;)

    2. Re:Really? by Tom · · Score: 5, Funny

      Depends on the body mass of these people, which thankfully are included in the sample (well, at least their self-reported body mass, but we have good studies showing the statistical discrepancies, so we can extrapolate).

      If we assume that 4 people can comfortably fuck on a king-size bed, and for simplicity assume such a bed to be 2x2 m then a football field 6400 m^2 (american football) oder 7140 m^2 (european soccer) is the equivalent of 1600-1785 orgies. Let's leave a little space inbetween for walking, etc. then we have 1500 women and 4500 men on such a football field.

      The analysis says 12,000 women, so that's 8 football fields. Since that includes only 36,000 men, the remaining ca. 32 mio. need to fit in the stands, meaning 4 mio. per stadium. The largest stadium in the world is, interestingly, in North Korea and it fits 150,000.

      So, by flawless math and logic, we can deduce that a lot of those male profiles are either fake as well, or gay (which means we need to add a couple stadiums with same-sex orgies).

      There, put it into football fields for you. Happy?

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    3. Re:Really? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 5, Funny

      It means there's 3582 football fields for every 8 library of congress.

    4. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It means that, if men on Ashley Madison sold out AT&T Stadium to watch a football game (about 105,000 men), there wouldn't be enough women on Ashley Madison to field a football team (about 41 women, when an NFL roster has 46 players that dress.)

    5. Re:Really? by _UnderTow_ · · Score: 4, Funny

      If we assume that 4 people can comfortably fuck on a king-size bed

      I think you and I have different definitions of 'comfortably'

    6. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      re: "Can someone put this into football fields for me?"

      I think the unit for this would be Libraries of Sexual Congress.

    7. Re:Really? by trabby · · Score: 5, Funny

      2583 way is less of a leeway and more of a honey surrounded by a freeway...

  3. No real women on slashdot either by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only transgenders with SJW propaganda

  4. So was this... by dosius · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...something along the lines of "Welcome to the Internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents" ?

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    1. Re:So was this... by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 3, Funny

      “In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  5. You insensitive clod! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ashley prefers to be called "Bruce" now.

  6. Re:STEM College by ksheff · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sex Kills! Go to Tech and Live Forever! - actual bumper sticker sold by our college bookstore.

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  7. Re:Being Female by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe if they were tighter instead of looser, they wouldn't get cheated on. They should try kegels or something.

  8. Re:So then the question becomes by jandersen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who wants a check from Ashely Madison sent to their home or work?

    Their employees, presumably.

  9. Re:Fixed it for you. by Rei · · Score: 2, Funny

    When a woman gets married and has children, her whole life changes. Her husband is no longer the focus of her life, her children are. She loses interest in sex, and doesn't see why she should have to do it any more. If she wants another child, sure, but otherwise not. To her, it's just one more person who wants something from her at the end of a long day at work, and this one she can actually say "no" to. So, she does.

    Meanwhile, the husband, cut completely off from one source of sex he is allowed to have, grows increasingly desperate and unhappy.

    Okay, sorry for the tangent, but: how on Earth are people from the year 1958 managing to make posts on Slashdot that show up today? How are they even getting a bloody net connection back then?

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  10. Re:Women Count Too Low by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >All online dating sites are the same -- the men far outnumber the women.

    Heh, I bet that's the case even with dating sites that cater only to lesbians.

  11. Re:So then the question becomes by meta-monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tom: Listen to this one then; you open a company called the Arse Tickler's Faggot Fan Club. You take an advert in the back page of some gay mag, advertising the latest in arse-intruding dildos, sell it a bit with, er... I dunno, "does what no other dildo can do until now", latest and greatest in sexual technology. Guaranteed results or money back, all that bollocks. These dills cost twenty-five each; a snip for all the pleasure they are going to give the recipients. They send a cheque to the company name, nothing offensive, er, Bobbie's Bits or something, for twenty-five. You put these in the bank for two weeks and let them clear. Now this is the clever bit. Then you send back the cheques for twenty-five pounds from the real company name, Arse Tickler's Faggot Fan Club, saying sorry, we couldn't get the supply from America, they have sold out. Now you see how many of the people cash those cheques; not a single soul, because who wants his bank manager to know he tickles arses when he is not paying in cheques!

    Bacon: So how long do you have to wait for a return?

    Tom: Probably no more than four weeks.

    Bacon: Well what good is that if we need it in six... no, five days?

    Tom: Well it was still a good idea.

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  12. Re:That's Quite the Gender Ratio ... by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm a woma

    Yeah, sure you are. I'm not falling for that again ...

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  13. That does it by mnemotronic · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm deleting all 6 of my accounts. I simply cant abide dishonesty.

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