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I'm bewildered that you are upset about the post, because I genuinely think it's a sound inference if you do the math...

• ggggtez 8y ago
  In Germany, there is only about 212k Chinese people. Since that's less than 1% of the German population, I guess they should just throw them all in jail since their opinions don't matter (mathematically, of course).
  • zachguo 8y ago
    "throw them all in jail" is your sensationalized interpretation, which BTW is what I hate to see on HN. I was just talking about the poll results would not change.
  • yorwba 8y ago
    In the event that Germany indeed imprisoned all its Chinese people and a survey found that average life satisfaction was still pretty high, whether the opinion of those people was included in the survey wouldn't change the result. That doesn't mean that minorities don't matter, just that averages don't tell you anything about their situation. Sometimes you need to know the context of a statement to understand it.
  • echaozh 8y ago
    Yeah, Germans did something similar in the past, right? And those in jail, or something similar, their opinions didn't actually matter, did they? /s