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Where's the data to support that opinion
by user_named 3y ago
Where's the data to support that opinion
- tobr 3y agoWhere’s the data to support the opinion that opinions should be supported by data
- tlb 3y agoAll the data is available at https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/. As a suggested experiment, randomly select 25 stories with comments>votes, and 25 stories with votes>comments. Go through the comments on those 50 stories and score them for flamewarishness. It's probably a half day's work. 50 stories * 3 minutes each for scoring, plus some time for the random sampling and stats. You could present the data as a plot of your subjective flamewar score vs. log(votes/comments)
- jsnell 3y agoWhat opinion? It's a statement of fact, not an opinion. The flameware detector is a well-documented and old HN feature: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=author%3Adang%20flamewar%20detector&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...