According to this Vice article, pro-dommes have seen a big upsurge in business since Trump took office. If you think that means that Vice did a thorough survey of dommes across the country, using data from both before and after the election, then I can only admire your optimism in the quality of on-line journalism. As far as I can tell, they talked to exactly three dommes. Their anecdotal comments are interesting, but I don’t think three data points qualifies as a fully representative sample set of an entire industry.
If there has been a change, I actually like Mistress Tiffany’s suggestion – it’s due to backpage closing it’s adult ads section in January. Journalists tend to know and talk to well known and well established dommes. The kind of dommes who have proper websites optimized for search engines that are easy for clients to find. Journalists are unlikely to talk to the hundreds of lower profile women working mainly from backpage ads that have seen their business evaporate in the last couple of months. It would be a surprise to me if the backpage decision hadn’t triggered changes in client patterns, but it’s obviously hard to measure what those might be.
Whatever has happened, if anything at all, the article does at least give me an excuse to feature this image of the lovely Mistress Iris. She’s an LA based pro-domme, and the third one interviewed in the Vice article.
Well, on the basis of statistical significance I don’t think there’s much of an argument to be had, is there?
Any domme’s views are of great significance, so the views of three of them must constitute one of the most significant samples ever recorded in the history of polling.
It’s male subs who would constitute an insignificant sample, no matter how many of us you ask.
Well it depends. Certainly their opinion is weighty indeed. But so is the opinion of all the other dommes out there who weren’t talked to. So from a domme sample point, one can still argue it is of dubious statistical significance. On the other hand, it’s you, me and the journalist who aren’t significant. Yet we’re the one’s writing about this. So in short, my brain hurts.
-paltego