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Comment by CM30 | Hacker News Reader

Huh, so apparently the day with the highest percentage of mean comments is Sunday.

Anyone want to have a guess as to why that may be the case? Personally, I'd expect people to least happy on Monday morning or something, not the second day they usually get a rest that week.

Similarly confused as to why everyone is supposedly so positive on Wednesday...

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My guess would be that a larger percentage of respondents are not professionals in the field. The pros are afk.

The difference between the most negative day (14.18%) and the least negative day (10.66%) is very small.

A few guesses:

1. People who got into family fights over the weekend

2. People who loved online for a minute and got an upsetting work email and are dreading the coming work week.

3. People who feel isolated or bored and are online instead of enjoying their weekend.

Would be curious to see if this is random noise though it if it's consistent year to year.

I'm wondering how this compares to the frequency of any comments by day. It could be that more comments are posted on Sunday in general, and the least on Wednesday.

The negativeness is a percent (number of negative comments divided by number of total comments). I don't think the data is too significant though, because they are all + or - 5 percent of each other

Smonday - the period of time where you realise your weekend is coming to an end and you have to go back to work tomorrow

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