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> "Pew surveyed more than 3,400 U.S. Facebook users in May and June, and found that a whopping 44 percent of those ages 18 to 29 say they've deleted the app from their phone in the last year."

That feels like a fairly small sample. Then from that to look at some subset (i.e., 18 to 29) feels even more suspect.

Also, best I can tell, this survey was self-reported.

This is worthy of at-the-bar discussion, but let's not take it too seriously otherwise; at least not until the data is better.



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


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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