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bombcarlast Thursday at 10:25 PM1 replyview on HN

YouTube videos of sleeping cats could have a left-leaning bias!

I wonder how you’d structure a proper study on this. Probably obtain a random selection of cat owners (slaves?) first.


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throwup238yesterday at 1:20 AM

I don’t know how random their selection was but another 2020 study on cat slow blinking that popped up on HN [1], they recruited cat “owners”. Given how militant cat “owners” can be, it wouldn’t be too hard to come up with a few hundred/thousand candidates from which to do patient selection. Just sending a DM to the cats or eyebleach subreddit mods would probably get an enterprising researcher a pinned post too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36132265