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I often wonder how biased we are here. After all, HN is a rather "raw-looking" news aggregator without any of the addictive and suggestive bells & whistles that
by fch42 2y ago
I often wonder how biased we are here. After all, HN is a rather "raw-looking" news aggregator without any of the addictive and suggestive bells & whistles that define the modern internet, and it is therefore reasonable to assume that those who read and post here (aka "us") also converse in ways unlike the population average.
You could also claim I'm saying we're basking in our own elitism to the degree that we're offended by stupidity like that. I'd admit to that feeling. Alas, even if it sounds arrogant, it fits my observation that "most people" would find nothing at all wrong with this sort of meaningless overchildish belittlement of scientific facts.
- marginalia_nu 2y agoThe HN readership is as entitled to an opinion about writing style as anyone else. If anything thinking yourself such an intellectual one-punch-man, such an outlier, so many echelons above the common man that a single voicing of your opinions would meaningfully skew the statistics, now that's what I'd consider elitist. We ought to complain about what we subjectively find lacking, not what we expect some model of the average person will find lacking. If everyone did that, I don't think it would be possible to make something that is to anyone's liking, as while it's relatively easy to know what you like and want, it is incredibly hard to know what the average person desires.