Sad that the correction has fewer upvotes than both of the HN threads with the original dubious statistic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501017

I think this speaks volumes about HN's user base being far less enlightened and fact-oriented than we like to think. Instead it seems that the articles reinforcing our biases are the ones we pay the most attention to.