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That direction of thinking will only drive you crazy. Skepticism is good but don't take it too far.

Also there is at least some proof that it was posted 5 days ago: http://imgur.com/fkyQS and http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/xvnvo/a_friend_took_a...

I suppose we can question that day4.se were really the ones who planted it... but, does it matter who planted it? The conclusion is the same.

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Please, examine the post to which I replied. The point is not a question of whether the facts you laid out are true. You are correct in that they don't matter so much. But consider in the context of the GP post: we have the article appearing to lay things out fairly closely to "look how much everyone believed us" versus the comment saying "well, not everyone". That is to say, the message of the article still holds just fine, but it would still be fair to carry this direction of thinking as far as "is their analysis totally on the level?" Given that this is more or less the message of the article, I was just noting how, even with this very message in front of us, we aren't necessarily heeding it as well as we could.

Ah, that wasn't quite clear. I agree, day4.se may not have had the effect they claimed they had.

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