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by hootz 1 day ago
Oh yeah, that's the name of it. But I guess something similar happens with checklists, you do it so many times without anything bad ever appearing that you start to subconsciously assume nothing will ever happen. Why check the rotor of my helicopter when nothing ever happened to it for 5 years? This checklist is a waste of time!
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> you start to subconsciously assume nothing will ever happen

True. But you still go through the fucking checklist.

That one's survivorship bias I think.