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Moved discussion to thread below. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2915845 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2915845 > someone who already knows what he
by temphn 15y ago
Moved discussion to thread below.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2915845 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2915845
> someone who already knows what he wants to say and only needs the reports that agree
:) Are you really saying you don't already have an opinion on this issue? Please assume good faith.
- danssig 15y agoOf course I do: based on everything I've seen in my life and the people I actually know. Not based on some report that never seems to agree with actual "in the field" data.
- lotharbot 15y agoMy experience disagrees with your experience, again based on my own life and people I actually know. The data, broadly speaking, matches up with my experience -- "some report" agrees with my "in the field" data, and with yummyfajitas' "in the field" data, and many others' "in the field" data. "Scalzi's article describes a fairly atypical poverty experience"; you and Scalzi are the outliers, not the norm.