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> Sincere question: what do you mean by "other populations"? HN does not provide a representative view of any group other than "HN readers". It doesn't even
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Sincere question: what do you mean by "other populations"?
HN does not provide a representative view of any group other than "HN readers".
It doesn't even do a great job of representing programmers, or people who work in tech. So if you come to HN and expect the things you read to be representative of any group broader than that, you'll end up pretty far off the mark.
- mrep 9y agoNitpick but it actually represents "HN commenters" because there almost certainly a lot of people who do not comment and those people don't necessarily have the same view as the commenters.
- ithilglin909 9y agoThanks? I really don't know why I would have the expectation that the views expressed on HN would be representative of the views of a group other than "People who comment on Hacker News". Same goes for any other site that people comment on...