>This is probably the most "echo chamber" friendly statement of any I've seen here. And what does the fact that all the replies disagree, and the post was down

>This is probably the most "echo chamber" friendly statement of any I've seen here. And what does the fact that all the replies disagree, and the post was down-voted, tell you about the existence of an "echo chamber"? (Remember to avoid confirmation bias here!) Also the poster didn't claim a causal relationship. The claim was the reading HN was correlated to success, not that it caused it. > An assertion with no evidence, seemingly rooted in a self satisfying sense of superiority The evidence was in the survey, but if you don't believe in a particular causal relationship (in this case, better engineer -> higher salary) then any correlation can always be dismissed as "not evidence". The assumption of "a self satisfying sense of superiority" was all yours. To many people it's simply obvious that there is a correlation between how good you are at your job and how much you get paid.