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by x1798DE 40 days ago
My understanding is a lot of the probability puzzles in Allen Downey's Probably Overthinking It [1] also boil down to similar selection effects (the inspection paradox is definitely in there). There is a lot of cool stuff in that book (and his blog of the same name).

1. https://greenteapress.com/wp/probably-overthinking-it/