Why does literally every single item on Hackernews have some replyguy screaming about clickbait? Is there therapy for that? Do you understand how headlines work? What part of 2 to 6 looks like "not an estimation"?
Edit: HN title used to be "Around 2-6% of World Bank foreign aid got siphoned into crypto wallets"
Original post: While you're being rude and it would be worth cutting the first half of your comment, that's a good point that "2-6%" is still clearly an estimation.
netsharc · · focus · HN ↗
> We estimate an implied leakage ...
So the estimation became almost a fact in the title? What's the equivalent of clickbait in papers?
The rest of that sentence:
> ... of 2 to 6 cents per aid dollar, which amounts to roughly 1.7 to 4.4 billion dollars of aid diversion across the tranche arrivals we study.
BeetleB · · focus · HN ↗
This isn't a clickbait in the paper, but by the submitter.
dfpojsdf · · focus · HN ↗
Dylan16807 · · focus · HN ↗
Original post: While you're being rude and it would be worth cutting the first half of your comment, that's a good point that "2-6%" is still clearly an estimation.
dfpojsdf · · focus · HN ↗
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