Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show Discrimination

Re:Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show D... by moomin on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:21PM (#16759817)

Not OP, but I’ll just observe that HN does have a recognisable political slant. Not everyone on it shares the views of that slant, but if you haven’t noticed it’s presence, it’s probably because you do share those views.

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Re:Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show D... by dang on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:32PM (#16759895)

That "recognizable slant" is in the eye of the beholder. On divisive issues, the community is simply divided, as is the society at large—or rather, the societies, since HN is a majority-international site. But that's not how it feels, because of this effect, which a reader pointed out yesterday:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16751922

I guarantee you that readers with opposite views to yours have opposite views of HN's "recognizable slant". Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16397133 to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407769. Or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134205 to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750306. And so on.

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Re:Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show D... by thraway180306 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:55PM (#16760087)

HN is a majority-international site

Sorry, but is this claim based on pageviews, or the origins of the comments being posted?

It's not like guardian.co.uk/international is in fact international news and opinion.

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Re:Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show D... by dang on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:08PM (#16760196)

I mean that no country has a majority of the users hitting HN. In terms of posting comments it's a bit more than 50% from the US.

The point, though, is that people coming here are coming from many different countries, so opinion is more divided than it would be from just one. There aren't only political and ideological divides, but national, cultural, and linguistic ones. Understandably—because the information isn't available—people don't take this into account. That unfortunately leads to a lot of misunderstanding and even ill will.

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Re:Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show D... by thraway180306 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:45PM (#16760415)

It is heartening to know you do gather information of this granularity.

Why not make it available?

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Re:Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show D... by dang on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:07PM (#16760550)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521

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Re:Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show D... by thraway180306 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:22PM (#16760627)

where HN community are based

A vague question

The numbers depend on how you measure 'user' and 'location'

Gets a vague answer.

My question was specifically about the commentariat not eyeballs.

I don't think myself as worthy of an answer specifically to me. I think it would be for the best benefit of others if not buried in some obscure thread.

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Re:Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show D... by ithilglin909 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:28PM (#16759863)

I'm not sure how that's answering my question...?

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