"Wet Bias"

clay · 10-10-2012, 04:53 PM

This has me thinking, as I read it when you had first posted.
Yes, and no..is.
Yes, because results can be skewed with several variables.
Online interactions are afforded the ambiguity of anonymity, allowing for false presentations at times.
People aren't privy to that "real time", "right around the corner" face to face interactions, so as to actually see/feel/hear the emotes afforded , that are absent with "online" behind a computer screen.
Behind the cloak of a screen is an "emotionless" encounter...as you can't SEE reality. Say for instance, Road Rage, this isn't possible to see or hear online. Perhaps there is a third eye (in Chakras, YES there is) but this is literally....you wouldn't necessarily see that from behind the confines of a screen. Not a big deal for me, per se, but it may be for others.
No, because online is in "cyber world"..and in "cyber world" everyone is "awesome" and wonderful and has such riches and degrees and whatever persona they may wish to create. So it wouldn't lend credence to a positive wet bias, but as LWF said a "false positive wet bias".
This is my own opinion and isn't meant to be negative or derogatory or accusatory to anyone or any situation...am just joining the htread...voicing my personal thoughts

Bit · 10-10-2012, 05:06 PM

Yes, I think so. I think we expect things to go better than they do because people tend to put their best foot forward, yanno? And of course online there is that chance to hit the delete key and rethink what we might have said, so that people often get our more considered answers when in face-to-face interactions we just blurt out that first thing we started to say, and have NO delete key. So we think we are getting into relationships with a person who always acts at their very best.

One of the things I learned over the years though is that no one can sustain that best-foot-forward behavior for more than about six months, and quite often not for more than three or four months. How the person acts in month seven is a much more accurate picture of what life with them might be like.

I suspect that having Skype or a program like it might speed that timeframe up considerably, and might also eliminate that wet bias.

10-10-2012, 04:53 PM	#1
clay Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Butch (Silver Fox) Dom Daddi Preferred Pronoun?: 50 Shades of Clay Darker & Deeper Relationship Status: married to my forever Join Date: May 2011 Location: salt air & sandy beaches Posts: 13,136 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 97,020 Thanked 31,667 Times in 7,748 Posts Rep Power: 21474864	Excellent thread, LWF! This has me thinking, as I read it when you had first posted. Yes, and no..is. Yes, because results can be skewed with several variables. Online interactions are afforded the ambiguity of anonymity, allowing for false presentations at times. People aren't privy to that "real time", "right around the corner" face to face interactions, so as to actually see/feel/hear the emotes afforded , that are absent with "online" behind a computer screen. Behind the cloak of a screen is an "emotionless" encounter...as you can't SEE reality. Say for instance, Road Rage, this isn't possible to see or hear online. Perhaps there is a third eye (in Chakras, YES there is) but this is literally....you wouldn't necessarily see that from behind the confines of a screen. Not a big deal for me, per se, but it may be for others. No, because online is in "cyber world"..and in "cyber world" everyone is "awesome" and wonderful and has such riches and degrees and whatever persona they may wish to create. So it wouldn't lend credence to a positive wet bias, but as LWF said a "false positive wet bias". This is my own opinion and isn't meant to be negative or derogatory or accusatory to anyone or any situation...am just joining the htread...voicing my personal thoughts __________________ To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. ~Robert Brault

10-10-2012, 05:06 PM	#2
Bit Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Stonefemme Relationship Status: married to Gryph Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Wichita, KS Posts: 2,177 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,126 Thanked 3,770 Times in 1,264 Posts Rep Power: 10778870	Yes, I think so. I think we expect things to go better than they do because people tend to put their best foot forward, yanno? And of course online there is that chance to hit the delete key and rethink what we might have said, so that people often get our more considered answers when in face-to-face interactions we just blurt out that first thing we started to say, and have NO delete key. So we think we are getting into relationships with a person who always acts at their very best. One of the things I learned over the years though is that no one can sustain that best-foot-forward behavior for more than about six months, and quite often not for more than three or four months. How the person acts in month seven is a much more accurate picture of what life with them might be like. I suspect that having Skype or a program like it might speed that timeframe up considerably, and might also eliminate that wet bias.