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This whole business smacks of survivorship bias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias What we aren't s
by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
This whole business smacks of survivorship bias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
What we aren't seeing is the number of Facebook users who either a) don't use Google to find Facebook every time they log in or b) do use Google but figured out right away that RRW is not Facebook.
- tdoggette 17y agoWe're also not seeing all the people that hit the RWW page and gave up.
- Groxx 17y agoThe problem with such epic n00bs, though, is that there are so many of them that the "survivors" alone can destabilize your business. Heck, without noobs, would we even have spam? Somebody is paying those people to make it worthwhile. The tiny fraction of the world that encourages spammers cost everyone else massive amounts of time and energy and money accounting for or fixing their errors.
- jerf 17y agoWell, then they wouldn't be n00bs then, would they? I don't see how it's survivorship "bias" when the entire topic of discussion is only those people who fit a certain classification. That's not bias, that's just the topic.