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While I don't agree with you per-se, there's a lot of inherent survivorship bias in your sample group.
by peteretep 9y ago
While I don't agree with you per-se, there's a lot of inherent survivorship bias in your sample group.
- r00fus 9y agoIf it's survivor bias, wouldn't that make the Somali classmates' opinions even more valid (their contemporaries being dead and all)? Or did you intend to say selection bias?
- kolinko 9y agoSurvivor bias doesn't have to be based on literal survival. But yes, in this case a more generic, selection, might be more appropriate.
- s_kilk 9y agoIndeed. It's kind of amazing that around here when someone says "yeah my Libertarian Paridise home-country is actually a shithole because people keep getting machete'd to death by roving gangs", someone else strokes their chin and thinks "hmm, I'm not sure I buy it, maybe there's a survivorship bias in there"