[croes]

Survivorship bias

[game_the0ry]

Technically, all journalism pieces on successful businesses are survivorship bias. No one writes and reads about the business that failed to find PMF.

[croes]

And that’s the problem. You find the same traits they claim that made them successful by those who failed. Cherrypicking the winners creates a false reasoning of success.

[game_the0ry]

Is it a problem? Bc I know there is survivorship bias and also still want to hear about the successes, so what is the problem then?

[croes]

How many readers don’t know that? And how many fall for the false reasoning of those success stories?

[game_the0ry]

You are assuming most readers are dumb. I do not have that assumption.