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Re:The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy by dang on Monday July 08, 2019 @04:17PM (#20386349)
If you think a single example is "quite telling", you're falling prey to the bias that makes everyone thinks HN is against their favored position. This is a common perception, but a mechanical one. That makes it predictable and that makes it off topic—just look at the lame subthread this provoked.

People with opposite convictions see opposite biases in exactly the same data. It would be no different with a random ranking.

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Re:The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy by malandrew on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @03:04PM (#20395424)
It's a pretty well known and indisputable phenomena at this point that negative news and articles and stories drives engagement and is what gets the clicks and upvotes. While it is true that those with different biases will make different observations, you can be pretty certain that it's very likely that regardless of your bias, you're likely to observe that stories about some crisis or bad news will win out over stories that report good, hopeful news.
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