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Yet another article talking about trends based on questionable or cherry picked anecdotes.
by xchip 3y ago
Yet another article talking about trends based on questionable or cherry picked anecdotes.
- MetaWhirledPeas 3y agoYeah, what qualifies something to be a trend? Been in the US my entire life, and I've never heard someone casually putting on a fake British accent.
- joshstrange 3y agoI hate these articles with a passion, they make me think so much less of the "news" org putting them out. Another headline I saw recently on HN that drove me nuts: "Paper map sales are booming" [0] - with a subtitle of "Fans say physical maps—though less efficient than digital options—enhance one’s journey. Among devotees: a surprising number of millennials and members of Generation Z" - Bullshit. Subtitle should have been "as art", almost no one, especially Gen-Z is using paper maps as actual maps. Also all the articles about "people are going back to flip/dumb phones" no they aren't. You found a handful of people who did it, half of which I doubt are still doing it 1-2 months later and you want to pretend it's a trend. It's so tiring. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34469378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34469378
- yamazakiwi 3y agoI have yet to see a good article that lists any generation in the title.