Thanks for the compliment but my simplistic summation of game theory and group psychology still needs a whole lot of work. ;) As for how to fix it, that's a re

Thanks for the compliment but my simplistic summation of game theory and group psychology still needs a whole lot of work. ;) As for how to fix it, that's a remarkably tough question, in fact, it might be a formally "undecidable" (unsolvable) question but that doesn't mean a better partial solution can't be found. Either way, writing up my thoughts would result in a painfully long post, and I'm not sure I would make much useful progress towards potential improvements. More importantly, I have already derailed tokenadult's submission; it's clear that he wanted to know both the personal and perceived biases are around HN, rather than look at the root cause of those biases. It's fair to say I let him down by examining root causes. If you asked me what color the sky is, and I answered with the physics causing sky color on various planets, then you wouldn't have gotten the answer you wanted. An important part of overcoming bias is knowing what the biases are.