Yeah, what would Aella be doing in a shower? Completely unrealistic scenario.
Taking photos of herself to make it look like she showers.
Aella compares herself to sex studies published in journals.
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She complains about the "rumor" that her research is just Twitter polls... even though 99% of it literally is.
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Remember everyone, you need to stop criticizing her for not being a real researcher, this is a very sore spot for her. It's "complete lies" and her "reputation" is "getting ruined"!
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Unfortunately for her, she hasn't been published in journals yet. The only recent thing she's gotten into is something called "Asterisk" magazine... which is just a magazine for rationalists to circlejerk other rationalists.
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Of course all the rats are sucking it up. Here's one describing her as an "outsider sex preference researcher" (translation: weird gross fetish researcher).
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Here's Big Schlomo calling her "one of Earth's few real scientists".
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And says she's "crushing" academics with her "better data".
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And Kelsey Piper, Effective Altruist sperg and Vox journoscum, with this weird claim that people are "furious" about Aella (who?) because she's so good at The Science™ (lol no) and is in favor of "weird sex stuff" (yeah like her wanting AI-generated child porn).
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We haven't even gotten to the article yet. First off, fuck this site in particular for blocking my VPN. Why do they need such an aggressive firewall on a read-only site? I don't know, but rationalists are faggots.

And no, the ReCaptcha did not work. I'm not going to bother doing the dance of cycling through nodes to find an unblocked one, I'll just read the article through the
archived version. Fucking rat niggers.
We're off to a good start because her first paragraph is already complaining about people "yelling at me for doing surveys on the internet."
Remember y'all,
don't criticize her for doing True & Honest research!
Because she literally does the best possible way and anything else would be worse, or so she says.
Her argument, using vore as an example, is that finding vore fetishists introduces a nonrandom sample.
Her favourite bugbear pedophilia gets a shout, which she categorizes as just a "sexual fetish". She argues that pedophiles aren't anti-social and compulsive, we just think they are because we study them from outpatient facilities and that introduces selection bias.
She does not apply this reasoning to her own shit. Most of the rest of the article is dedicated to sperging about her oh-so-carefully designed "Really Friggin' Long Survey" which is just unadultered bullshit to make it seem more scientific than it is. Case in point, her discussion of incentivising people to take the test ends with this:

Won't this introduce a bias towards people who want to show off how "freaky" they are and basically filter out normal people? What's the incentive for normal people to take the survey if they know they're going to get "you're normal and boring" at the end of it?
Actually, I don't think she cares about normal people. She explicitly says she dedicates her autism because she wants to normalize sexual fetishes. (Like pedophilia...) So fuck you, normies, stop being so normal.
