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Comment by hliyan | Hacker News Reader

I'm reading the article and it seems to say that the government decided to not fund it further. But the headline "trial falls flat" seems to imply that somehow the trial returned a negative result. Am I missing something?

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It seems that the article is drawing a conclusion without evidence. It states further down in the article that the full results will not be released until 2019.

The trial could easily have not had positive, but its also just as possible that the program died due to political reasons.

I'd like to see the statistics on the program as it'd be good to know if universal income is something that has no plausible chance of working, needs to be rolled out to more people to work, or if this is just basic politics killing a program

What you're missing is that most journalism is written with specific narratives intended to convince you of a particular world view. Learning to read around it is a critical skill. Most people don't have it, which is why propaganda (this article is) works so well.

Nope, you're not missing anything. This is the exact same criticism made in the top comment on every site I've seen this story posted on (I think this is #4).

In such a case, an intelligent person always tend to think that the program bore positive results but politicians were too afraid of the consequences so they cut is short. They would be too happy to show a negative result to the public would that be the case.

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