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karmakaze · 2019-09-28 19:34:42+00:00

HN has a much broader population than individual comment threads might indicate.

0x008 | karma 1041 | avg karma 1.84 · | 2021-12-02 00:31:51

That this thread includes a couple of comments like this is really interesting.

It shows that HN is a very particular sample of the population.

rodionos | karma 1453 | avg karma 2.76 · | 2016-01-06 12:44:26

Some of the comments posted here make me wonder about how broad and diverse the HN reader base is. The demographics are just unbelievable, if not surprising.

sametmax | karma 16793 | avg karma 3.97 · | 2017-12-09 18:13:58

I'm part of a lot of communities, and clearly HN is one of the rare where I am, more often than not, answered in comments by people more intelligent than me. So even if I'd consider myself an average Joe, it seems a good sign that HN has quite a lot of intelligent people. At least more than average.

detaro | karma 40664 | avg karma 1.79 · | 2020-03-01 02:29:45+00:00

It's almost as if HN is a community made of different people with different opinions and not a singular entity.

lolinder | karma 32428 | avg karma 5.57 · | 2023-06-08 19:23:29

It's always important to keep in mind that HN is big and any given thread attracts a different group of people. What appears to be volatility of opinions is actually volatility of who is participating.

if_by_whisky | karma 487 | avg karma 5.02 · | 2017-10-17 02:29:35+00:00

HN is a diverse community with many views.

grzm | karma 13860 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2017-02-27 20:32:13+00:00

I know! I often see comments that imply HN is homogenous (with the exception of the poster). There's a lot of different people that make up the HN community, which is one of its strengths, and one of the reasons I value it.

kaolti | karma 336 | avg karma 1.98 · | 2019-08-09 07:19:33

We gotta realize HN isn't exactly representative of the population.

macintux | karma 16051 | avg karma 2.7 · | 2021-11-30 20:56:16

> You just don't find many of those people on HN.

I see plenty of them here in this discussion.

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yreg | karma 8096 | avg karma 3.05 · | 2022-12-28 09:41:25

This topic probably directly concerns more HN users than many other front page topics.

detaro | karma 40664 | avg karma 1.79 · | 2021-02-07 22:08:39+00:00

It's almost as if HN were a community made from people with different perspectives and opinions.

VirusNewbie | karma 1494 | avg karma 1.36 · | 2023-05-10 14:48:19

My hunch is that’s a little less than half of HN posters. I notice that a lot on reddit and much less here.

cdelsolar | karma 1453 | avg karma 1.64 · | 2017-04-11 20:12:42+00:00

It's almost as if HN is made of a community of different people with different personalities and motivations.

slaunchwise | karma 149 | avg karma 4.14 · | 2016-09-14 16:56:36

The comments on this thread strike me as an unusually good portrait of the HN community. This is who we are, how we spend our time, how much diversity in these viewpoints we contain.

seattle_spring | karma 5707 | avg karma 2.52 · | 2021-04-22 23:23:53+00:00

HN is a large collection of people with diverse opinions, not just one person who decides to swing their opinion one way or the other on a given day.

gmadsen | karma 837 | avg karma 1.6 · | 2021-10-06 14:06:01

Yes, as I'm sure many do here as well. Thats because the HN community is not representative of the average population

dang | karma 18142 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2022-07-27 17:52:51

"HN" is millions of people. All kinds of views are represented here and I'm sure many people agree with you.

chaostheory | karma 21675 | avg karma 3.16 · | 2023-01-30 19:31:17

It’s a safe assumption given the following

1. HN users are not “everyone in the world”

2. Compared to the normal population, software engineers, near equivalent tech professionals, and people working in the sciences or medical industry disproportionately represent most of HN users based on the content being posted.

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beej71 | karma 4269 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2022-08-31 18:56:04

Maybe the HN crowd isn't homogenous.