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I like to think of such "strange" highly voted posts as revealing a hidden correlation. Yes, there may not be any obvious prior reason to expect that people who
by reinhardt 11y ago
I like to think of such "strange" highly voted posts as revealing a hidden correlation. Yes, there may not be any obvious prior reason to expect that people who frequent HN find David Bowie or his death significant. And yet they do. There doesn't have to be a cause-and-effect or "logical" explanation. It is what it is.
- krapp 11y agoPeople who frequent HN are likely to be part of the set of people who have been influenced by popular culture, which is a superset of David Bowie fans.
- reinhardt 11y agoThis would imply that all/most posts about popular culture figures are highly upvoted in HN but I doubt this is the case (no data, just subjective impression).
- krapp 11y agoI think it just implies that HN users are informed by popular culture. Not every cultural figure is likely to be as important to HN users as every other, but some[0] clearly are, and posts about deaths are of a different sort. [0]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dies&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dies&sort=byPopularity&prefix=...