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"Most of the foreigners I knew in Beijing had PhDs". Speaking of research, you are illustrating self-selection bias and small sample size fallacy in your argum
by thrway12332412 9y ago
"Most of the foreigners I knew in Beijing had PhDs". Speaking of research, you are illustrating self-selection bias and small sample size fallacy in your argument. A small group of friends do not represent the whole. You shoudn't downvote people just because their opinion differs from yours.
- thrway123324212 9y agoSeems like you are choosing to downvote people that do not agree with you. I prefer to argue with logic and not downvotes. Its very unfortunate. Good day, Mr. Mcdirmid.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoI didn’t downvote anyone.
- gus_massa 9y agoThe software of HN forbid to downvote the replies to a comment that a user has made, so seanmcdirmid was not able to downvote you. Someone else had to downvoted your comments. [In case you are wondering, I didn't downvote you neither.] [Also, complains about downvotes and accusations of downvotes are good methods to get more downvotes. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ]
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoOf course it was, but then again there are so few foreigners in Beijing that small sample size bias is inevitable. Also, haven’t downvotes anyone on this thread.