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This is not statistical analysis, this is "descriptive statistics" at best. This: > One of the infamous memes about Hacker News is programming language elitism
by thanatropism 13y ago
This is not statistical analysis, this is "descriptive statistics" at best. This:
> One of the infamous memes about Hacker News is programming language elitism, with favoritism for languages such as Lisp and Erlang.
> Lisp and Erlang are indeed obscure, which might discredit the meme.
is the exact opposite of analysis. If it was found that 40% of HNers were left-handed, HN would be noted as a particularly left-handed website, since the base rate in the population is a fraction of that.