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altairprimetoday at 6:18 PM1 replyview on HN

> The study also paints this as "kind of unfair against women", but didn't include men at all.

Unfairness found against one segment is not negated by studying only one segment, and “but” is a load-bearing word representing your entire one-word claim. Please explain in more words what argument you’re supporting with your two observations?


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sokolofftoday at 8:37 PM

If I read a medical paper that concluded and headlined that “cancer kills left-handed patients” but studied only left-handed patients, I might think the study was technically correct but still reasonably wonder if the left-handedness is relevant to the study’s results.

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