Understand your point about biased vs unbiased, guess I just didn’t intend to limit the patterns to being only positive or negative, just anything that’s measurable that fits within comparable terms.

And yes, of course, this is more about being more or less of X — not being 100% of X.

To be honest, core reason I presented question is that it’s not uncommon for any community to see itself as the best community; HN of course being no exception. Problem is, without an objective measure, how can any community become less wrong?