"Sex Wanted" Ads on Craiglist Surge with the DNC
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In order for this stat to be meaningful at all, we need to know a few more things. First, how many of the posts claim to be from people who arrived in town for the DNC, versus those from people who are already in town looking to hook up with out-of-towners? Secondly, how many are posted by the same person? And thirdly, how many people are in town for the convention?
Let's assume 150 of the 340 posts are from unique DNC visitors. And let's assume 50K people in town. That's a 0.3% post rate. Not quite an orgy.
Beyond that, how does the stat mentioned compare to the increase in postings across all of Craigslist Denver? How does it compare to the increase in postings to Craiglist during DNCs and RNCs in year past? How about whenever there's any large convention in town?
I guess this article wouldn't have generated as many pageviews if Declan's editor at CNet titled it, "More People Get it On When More People are in the Same Locale."
Just because you can do the math in a way that yields a big number doesn't make it a trend or a scandal.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article45824...
The old "what goes on tour stays on tour" mantra is still alive and kicking, not just in sport but beyond.
Mere correlation does not imply causation
But what people read and what they choose to understand will forever be far divided.
Shock?
Think of all the lower-level political staffers, the volunteers, the politics junkies who came to the convention because they want to hang out with other politics junkies. There are lots of young, enthusiastic people in a city full of strangers who are only going to be there for a week. Like spring break, without the beaches.
But it might be the combination of technological skills and go-getter attitude shared by young political staffers that lead them to post their desires on Craiglist...
That morality stuff is mostly for Sunday morning, not Saturday night.
It may be true, but that's not a good source.
It will be very interesting to see how the RNC works out. I suspect more of the same, with a slightly higher ratio on the m4m board (for many gay Republicans, the convention could be the only serious shot they have at finding a partner who shares their political views).
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/News/Politics/Det...
...and probably every other NC for as long as we have NCs.
The sun just came up here and it just got brighter outside. But correlation does not imply causation.
-Tom Walsh (Police Spokesman) on prostitution at both national conventions in 2004.
I don't see the evidence that shows it happened, just that a group predicted that it would happen and then the police stating that they hadn't seen any increase in activity.
I don't doubt that it could be true, but this article doesn't prove anything. In fact, it leans the other direction with the police statement regarding previous conventions.