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Maybe she can throw some percentages into her next article on human interaction to make HN happy
by xweb 1y ago
Maybe she can throw some percentages into her next article on human interaction to make HN happy
- apwell23 1y agothats just the beginning - percentages aren't in a published paper - isn't in a prestigious enough journal to be taken seriously - hasn't been reproduced to be reliable
- kortilla 1y agoIt doesn’t really have anything to do with HN. It’s anyone who cares about the truth. Stuff that sounds believable because it “sounded good” and was argued by charismatic people plagued medicine until shockingly recently. It’s human nature to believe people and your snarky reply is evidence of that. Your gut reaction should be to agree with the comment or call out the author for fabricating stuff, not to dismiss intellectual rigor.
- walterbell 1y agoDo weddings hire painters to record objective or subjective truth?
- gusgus01 1y agoFrom the author, it's a newsletter on what she's thinking. I didn't see any advertising of shoddy medicine or claims of being scientific. Do we call out authors for writing poetry on the human experience? Why should we apply intellectual rigor on some observations made by an artist?
- kelseyfrog 1y ago"Two households, both alike in dignity," he says, with the confidence of a man who’s never run a census. We are given no confidence interval, no error bars, not even a passing nod to the broader Veronese housing market. Two? Why not three? Why not seven? Dignity, too, goes unmeasured. Are we talking patrician gravitas or the brittle self-importance of guys who name their swords? The line presumes a convenient symmetry where there is almost certainly chaos, over-leveraged family fortunes, and at least one uncle squatting in a basilica basement. Frankly, I suspect "two households" is just the number Shakespeare could hold in his head without dropping his drink.
- dooglius 1y ago"call out" as a metaphor doesn't apply to the discussing of a online newsletter on a separate site; neither the author nor other readers are likely to be aware of the discussion. It does seem very apt, if poetry were posted here that makes claims about the human experience, for commenters to dispute those claims.
- sibilantcinder 1y agoAdding stats won’t help, this is a sampling failure: she only observes the sort of people who attend weddings that employ painters
- octo888 1y ago[flagged]
- dijit 1y agoNo, they’re not. Please leave this gender war stuff to lesser mediums like X and Tiktok. HN is following the standard principle that was true on the internet before pictographic avatars of real people became popular; that we are all who we choose to be online. “Nobody knows you are a dog” etc. There are a few people who have tried to bring identity politics to HN over the years but it is unscientific to claim this bias without evidence regardless of anything else.
- James_K 1y ago> No, they’re not. Interesting that you are critiquing a woman for making observations without evidence, then you yourself make an observation without evidence. It couldn't be a double standard, could it? > it is unscientific to claim this bias without evidence We have ample evidence that almost everyone is sexist. Assuming that this doesn't apply to people on Hacker News is rather odd.
- octo888 1y ago[dead]
- SiempreViernes 1y agoAt the time of writing, three of the four existing replies showed no indication of understanding your point xweb; the fourth one having been made unavailable via flagging (but one can guess from context that it too didn't understand).