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Start off approaching a group of the same sex as you so that the encounter isn’t sexualized. Next, move on to a mixed sex group and then finish the night with an opposite gender interaction so you get a nice demographic spread.

I wonder if that last bit is intentionally a double-entendre. Especially since the proposed environment involves a bar.

It's an interesting technique, and I'll definitely keep the strategy in mind for future endeavors.



The double entendre was completely unintentional. Testing against women is important but one of the big hangups a lot of people have is the sexual component. This is one technique I've discovered to help ease out of that mindset.

As a strategy for picking up women, this is somewhere down the bottom in terms of effectiveness. As it turns out, asking someone to participate in a user study is about the least sexiest thing imaginable.




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