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In order for survivor bias to apply here we need other worlds which were destroyed to compare ours to.
by cantrip 9y ago
In order for survivor bias to apply here we need other worlds which were destroyed to compare ours to.
- mattbierner 9y agoThe fallacy still applies, we just don’t have enough data to know how lucky we really were. The question itself is biased to our present point of reference because if the world had been destroyed, no one would ask it
- cantrip 9y agoI think you're confusing survivorship bias with hindsight bias. If you're not then it's difficult to argue with this, that's simply not the definition of survivorship bias.