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chollida1 • today at 7:07 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Thinking a 5% drop in one day is a big deal is recency bias

In the past 5 years the S&P 500 has dropped 5% 1 time. the Nasdaq has done it 3 times.

You are ofcourse welcome to your own definition of a big deal but to me something that happens that rarely is a big deal.

At worst you'd have to agree that hte language is defensible:)


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dcrazy • today at 9:05 PM

I think the argument is that we have been in a massive everything bubble since summer of 2020, so you have to look back farther to truly understand the rarity of a 4% drop.