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Analysis Reveals Almost No Real Women On Ashley Madison

Posted by timothy on from the selling-an-image dept.

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. 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 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.

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

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

  3. 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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    What you hear in the ear, preach from the rooftop Matthew 10.27b
  4. 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.