This is interesting, but in my dating experiences I’ve not come up with any solid conclusions whenever I tried experimentation.
I see a few issues with the design of this experiment:
You’re the test designer, observer, and one of the subjects. There’s a ton of room for bias.
The sample size is only 20 dates.
There are 16 types of personality types if you assume Myers-Briggs is correct.
People have a wide variety of mental states before going on dates, and various motivations.
it is impossible to go on a date, act one way, go back in time and date the same woman, while acting differently, and compare the responses.
The fact that you’re going on dates to do this experiment may affect your actions on the date in a way that you wouldn’t act if you were not doing it as an experiment.
You may accept dates that you might not otherwise accept, for the sake of more data.
There’s multiple subjective datapoint/actions (e.g. “lots of eye contact”, “teasing ..more than normal”, “generally repressing”.
If you want to do this for fun or as a learning exercise, that’s understandable. But I am simply skeptical that you can get actionable conclusions from this. For actionable conclusions, I suggest reading up on existing studies (but be skeptical of them too).
Meters-Briggs has a junk, so that’s fine. My past romantic partners have consistent big five profile either.
Sure there are sources of bias. I can’t control for them. But th
No generalizability needed. It just has to work for me and the women I normally date. Who cares if it would work for the “average guy”
I have no reason to assume a small effect size. My current positive rate on dates is 20%. Lots of room for improvement.
The subjectivity isn’t a problem because I’m the analyst and implementer. I don’t need well defined terms like communicating an academic study. I can reproduce the study from memory whenever I want.
Finally, there is no real cost to the study. Currently I’m ambivalent between treatment and control.
This is interesting, but in my dating experiences I’ve not come up with any solid conclusions whenever I tried experimentation.
I see a few issues with the design of this experiment:
You’re the test designer, observer, and one of the subjects. There’s a ton of room for bias.
The sample size is only 20 dates.
There are 16 types of personality types if you assume Myers-Briggs is correct.
People have a wide variety of mental states before going on dates, and various motivations.
it is impossible to go on a date, act one way, go back in time and date the same woman, while acting differently, and compare the responses.
The fact that you’re going on dates to do this experiment may affect your actions on the date in a way that you wouldn’t act if you were not doing it as an experiment.
You may accept dates that you might not otherwise accept, for the sake of more data.
There’s multiple subjective datapoint/actions (e.g. “lots of eye contact”, “teasing ..more than normal”, “generally repressing”.
If you want to do this for fun or as a learning exercise, that’s understandable. But I am simply skeptical that you can get actionable conclusions from this. For actionable conclusions, I suggest reading up on existing studies (but be skeptical of them too).
Meters-Briggs has a junk, so that’s fine. My past romantic partners have consistent big five profile either.
Sure there are sources of bias. I can’t control for them. But th
No generalizability needed. It just has to work for me and the women I normally date. Who cares if it would work for the “average guy”
I have no reason to assume a small effect size. My current positive rate on dates is 20%. Lots of room for improvement.
The subjectivity isn’t a problem because I’m the analyst and implementer. I don’t need well defined terms like communicating an academic study. I can reproduce the study from memory whenever I want.
Finally, there is no real cost to the study. Currently I’m ambivalent between treatment and control.