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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by lupusreal on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:05PM (#44868820)
He didn't say the majority of HN loves porn. He said that male demographic likes porn more than any other, and that demographic is the majority of HN. It doesn't logically follow that the majority of HN supports porn.

Fake statistics just to illustrate the difference. Males 18-40 support porn at 60%, which is higher than any other demographic. HN is 60% males 18-40. With these numbers, 36% of HN is males 18-40 who support porn, and if all other demographics on HN oppose it, then those 36% are the minority.

(By the way, I have no idea what the real numbers are, and don't really care. I'm just responding to an evident confusion about what was actually said.)

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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by abustamam on Monday August 11, 2025 @10:26PM (#44871657)
Statistics doesn't work that way, and if OP wanted to say that, they should have specified that, rather than saying the majority of HN is a demographic that likes porn. It may be true in a statistical sense, but that's not how it is read.
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