Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show Discrimination

Re:Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show D... by chimeracoder on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:19PM (#16759798)

> Sincere question: what do you mean by "other populations"?

HN does not provide a representative view of any group other than "HN readers".

It doesn't even do a great job of representing programmers, or people who work in tech. So if you come to HN and expect the things you read to be representative of any group broader than that, you'll end up pretty far off the mark.

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Re:Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show D... by ithilglin909 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:43PM (#16759991)

Thanks? I really don't know why I would have the expectation that the views expressed on HN would be representative of the views of a group other than "People who comment on Hacker News".

Same goes for any other site that people comment on...

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Re:Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show D... by mrep on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:33PM (#16759909)

Nitpick but it actually represents "HN commenters" because there almost certainly a lot of people who do not comment and those people don't necessarily have the same view as the commenters.

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