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I 100% agree, but I was curious so I went through a few pages of hacker news posts, looking for some other scientific studies to see the general sentiment in th

by snayan 6y ago

I 100% agree, but I was curious so I went through a few pages of hacker news posts, looking for some other scientific studies to see the general sentiment in the comments. Here's one I found on an antidepressants impact on covid hospitalizations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25701446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25701446 Far from scientific, but there seems to be a general acceptance of the study in the comments of that article. I cannot say the same of this one. Now obviously the sample size and statistics of the studies are not identical, but it seems to me we're seeing significantly more 'critical thinking' in this thread than that one. I would love to drill into this further and see if this trend holds in further comment threads, but I'm late for a hike.

belorn 6y ago
Studies that blame a large demographic of malicious behavior is likely to be received with less acceptance than one that does not. If there were a covid study that said that Americans was more likely to become sick because they don't care enough about they fellow beings to follow recommendation, even with great sample size and statistics, most would look at such conclusion with skepticism.