What is Survivor Bias?
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My favourite example is popular music.
“Music today is almost all garbage. Music from a few decades ago was so much better!”
Common refrain, but it’s just another example of survivorship bias. Most of the music back then was garbage as well. We just haven’t bothered to keep listening to it. “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies was one of the top songs of its time, but no one points at it today as an example of great music.
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