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by marsrover 1846 days ago
I hate when people bring up survivorship bias about something like this. It's such a negative outlook. It's like a "don't even try because it's just a fluke that happened to them" type of mindset. It doesn't help anyone.
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I read this more as “make sure to account for survivor bias and don’t say stupid stuff.”

Survivor bias doesn’t mean that everything is a fluke. It just means that some things are flukes and it’s important to include that in our models so we don’t think something random is non-random.

This is very different than everything being 100% random.