commentary · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Penn and Teller on Vaccinations
UltraMiraculous · 6 HN recommenders · 5 recommendation months
Recommended by 6 Hacker News commenters across 5 months (2013–2018).
SignalTube analysis
Among 15 other commentary videos tagged Medicine & infectious disease, the mean is 1.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 6 distinct HN recommenders, about 3.6× that mean. Recommendations span 5 distinct months; the peer average is 1.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
86% of its 7 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2018; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 1 minutes 31 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2010-08-20.
- Channel / speaker
- UltraMiraculous
- Verified runtime
- 1m 31s
- YouTube upload date
- 2010-08-20
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2018
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other commentary videos in Medicine & infectious disease. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn and Teller on VaccinationsCurrent video | 6 | 5 | 86% | — | 1m 31s | 2010-08-20 |
| I Found The Source of the Coronaviruscommentary · laowhy86 | 6 | 5 | 30% | No recorded overlap | 10m 3s | 2020-04-01 |
| Opioids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)commentary · LastWeekTonight | 5 | 5 | 63% | No recorded overlap | 19m 23s | 2016-10-24 |
| Opioids II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)commentary · LastWeekTonight | 3 | 3 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 21m 21s | 2019-04-15 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “The Worst Measles Outbreak In The European Union”. Its short rationale: Drives home herd immunity in about 90 seconds.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “How an Amish missionary caused 2014's massive measles outbreak”. Its short rationale: Offered as a helpful explanation of vaccination.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “To Protect His Son, a Father Asks School to Bar Unvaccinated Children”. Its short rationale: Explains vaccinations in layman's terms.