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by Tijdreiziger 366 days ago
> […] I would imagine the constant is closer to 15-20% these days.

On what basis?

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On basis of spending a lot of my teenage time browsing 4chan, I'd say it's not 15%, but closer to 69% or even whole 420%. You just loose faith in humanity from spending too much time on the internet.
So we're writing off the methodologies of the entire field of psychology on the basis of numbers pulled out of your--on the basis of your gut feeling?
In fairness, Wafflemaker's gut feeling probably has a better track record.
I doubt 4chan is representative for the entire Internet.
An online survey administered via Survey Monkey, of course.
Don't you know this is HN? A hand wave here is worth more than any methodical research.
Based on what I learned from this video: https://youtu.be/r7l0Rq9E8MY?t=2