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Picking on you a little, but I see lots of comments like this one on HN: Unsourced, industry inside knowledge, stated authoritatively, confirms my biases and fi
by iudqnolq 7y ago
Picking on you a little, but I see lots of comments like this one on HN: Unsourced, industry inside knowledge, stated authoritatively, confirms my biases and fits into a narrative well known amoung the kinds of people who read HN.
I'm not really sure what the solution is. Thoughts?
- tehwebguy 7y agoI’m not sure people need to use a citation when effectively just saying “opening a market up to the world drives prices down”
- iudqnolq 7y agoExactly. It's not making a controversial claim. But it is telling a specific story. And it's interesting because of that. If the comment was what you'd written to summarize it I wouldn't have payed it much attention. Also, it's selection bias if "obviously sensical" anecdotes are believed and ones that disagree with our preconceptions aren't.