đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: There was recently an attempt by an independent journalist to expose fraud in a Minnesota social program. It was deeply frustrating; the journalist had notably poor epistemic standards, which secondary media seized upon to dismiss their result.The class-based sniffing almost invariably noted that prestige media had already reported stories which rhymed with the core allegation, while sometimes implying that makes the allegations less likely to be true, through a logical pathway which is mysterious to me.The journalism went quite viral anyway, in part because of…
