> I’ve commited a grave statistical faux-pas in this article. Did you spot it? I showed that the number of votes a Hacker News story gets is correlated with the time it is submitted. Then, I told you that submitting your story at a particular time will cause it to have a higher chance of success. Correlation does not imply causation, however, so this is unproven. It is entirely possible that stories submitted on the weekend have simply been better than those submitted on weekdays, or that weekend readers are “vote-happy”. However, my intuition suggests to me that it is most likely that there is true causation here.

You probably should have led with that caveat. Ignoring it completely for the sake of an argument is misleading.

Relatedly, "what if I told you I found an easy way to increase your story’s votes by 172%?" is flat-out wrong. That metric implies an average behavior, which is not the case here.