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		thomasfromcdnjs on Oct 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have d... This comment was hard to find... and also downvoted. It is a super small sample, they do not even allude to what percentage of those votes were in the 18 - 29 category. The provided pdf from the original Pewresearch article seems pretty bare -> http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/201... I see this happen quite regularly on Hacker News, a bit strange for a rational/fact based community to behave. Tweeted the researched -> https://twitter.com/ajaxdavis/status/1057046359218388992

chiefalchemist on Oct 30, 2018 [–]

I see the same. Maybe because it's stating the obvious? That said, when you read the comments it's as if so often the obvious has been ignored. Such is the effects of confirmation bias?

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