Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting
I really don&#x27;t want to say this in an uncivil way but can people please stop spamming Hacker News with these articles full of cherry-picked scientific studies from New York Times or can their posts be automatically weighted less if their goal is to promote articles from NYT?<p>It&#x27;s really frustrating having to spend a couple of minutes to read seemingly interesting articles only to find out a few minutes later it&#x27;s probably someone writing for his own gain (well... popular media).<p>The first scientific journal article that is linked to appears to use the word &quot;parental&quot; to refer to the relationship between a child and her&#x2F;his parents instead of, and as suggested in the article, between parents (see &quot;parental warmth&quot; and &quot;parental restrictiveness&quot; in the abstract of the journal article). The second scientific journal article that is linked to is used to argue that &quot;architects and scientists were compared with their technically skilled but less original peers&quot;—but the article that is linked to only mentions architects (apologies, but not actually too sorry, if it&#x27;s actually because of the pay wall and that the authors did not mention scientist in the abstract).<p>This is probably considered an emotional, and potentially uncivil, response. But it&#x27;s really, really frustrating. Just because some guy has a PhD doesn&#x27;t mean what they write is credible when they quote scientific journals—I know plenty of people who have PhDs but what they say are far from credible.<p>I mean, is it even at all surprising that people who are subjected to an environment with more conflicting views (both good and bad) of any kind are probably less likely to comply and think more?<p>EDIT: expansion of why I think the interpretation of the first article I mentioned is wrong and cherry-picked. Added emotional sentiment at the end.