My comment was upvoted to +12, so it is possible it did indeed have a measurable effect, but considering that’s a far larger sample of LW readers, I would tend to say the result is probably more accurate, at least for the set of LW readers. I wish we had better data from the survey on how lurkers differ from posters, at least we have a sort of usable karma distribution for non-zero values.
My comment was upvoted to +12, so it is possible it did indeed have a measurable effect, but considering that’s a far larger sample of LW readers, I would tend to say the result is probably more accurate, at least for the set of LW readers. I wish we had better data from the survey on how lurkers differ from posters, at least we have a sort of usable karma distribution for non-zero values.