What is Survivor Bias?
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This would be the simplest example I can think of
“Playing chicken on the freeway isn’t dangerous, we used to do it all the time and it did us no harm!”
… the kids who got hit by trucks and died, unsurprisingly, aren’t able to chime in with an “actually no, it’s quite dangerous, I died”
That’s it, that’s survivorship bias in a nutshell – you only see the success stories. Old buildings are beautiful and sturdy because the ugly and flimsy ones got knocked down and replaced. Old appliances are more reliable because the millions of unreliable ones broke decades ago and have been forgotten about
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