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Re:The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective by thrway12332412 on Saturday November 25, 2017 @10:10AM (#15776230)
"Most of the foreigners I knew in Beijing had PhDs". Speaking of research, you are illustrating self-selection bias and small sample size fallacy in your argument. A small group of friends do not represent the whole. You shoudn't downvote people just because their opinion differs from yours.
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Re:The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective by seanmcdirmid on Saturday November 25, 2017 @10:53AM (#15776419)
Of course it was, but then again there are so few foreigners in Beijing that small sample size bias is inevitable.

Also, haven’t downvotes anyone on this thread.

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Re:The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective by thrway123324212 on Saturday November 25, 2017 @10:42AM (#15776358)
Seems like you are choosing to downvote people that do not agree with you. I prefer to argue with logic and not downvotes. Its very unfortunate. Good day, Mr. Mcdirmid.
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Re:The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective by gus_massa on Saturday November 25, 2017 @11:48AM (#15776670)
The software of HN forbid to downvote the replies to a comment that a user has made, so seanmcdirmid was not able to downvote you. Someone else had to downvoted your comments.

[In case you are wondering, I didn't downvote you neither.]

[Also, complains about downvotes and accusations of downvotes are good methods to get more downvotes. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ]

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Re:The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective by seanmcdirmid on Saturday November 25, 2017 @10:50AM (#15776408)
I didn’t downvote anyone.
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