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Re:Common Misconceptions About Applying to YC by venkynarayanan on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:23AM (#12563111)
YC encourages founders to be concise and get to the point, so if they wanted to say "we are pretty US-centric but you still have a chance", they could have and should have just said in plain language.

> They provide numbers, they assume the reader is intelligent and hope they will learn new things and unlearn wrong assumptions.

This exactly is the issue people here are intelligent and that is why they can see the glaring gaps in the way the data is presented.

I think people are little pissed because the article chose to go the data route and dint provide the complete information for people to infer from.

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Re:Common Misconceptions About Applying to YC by Iv on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:41AM (#12563170)
You seem to complain that they did not dumb it down enough and that did dumb it down too much.

They provided a number, explaining what this number was. Assuming the reader is actually educated in statistics 101, that is not misleading at all.

Yes, they could publish all their data, but you also said you want concision. You can't have it both ways!

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