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Isn’t this survivor bias? Plenty of kids were killed or died gruesome deaths in older days.
by matte_black 8y ago
Isn’t this survivor bias? Plenty of kids were killed or died gruesome deaths in older days.
- saagarjha 8y ago> Plenty of kids were killed or died gruesome deaths in older days. How "old" are you talking about here?
- carlivar 8y agoProbably referring to the Black Forest of medieval Germany.
- paublyrne 8y agoSome, sure, but there was hardly an epidemic.
- PrimHelios 8y agoMeanwhile, there were literal epidemics of children dying when my mother was a kid.
- rco8786 8y agoYes, accidents happen. But this is precisely the type of thinking that got us where we are today. Millions of kids playing in the forest and a few get hurt so we keep them inside now.
- matte_black 8y agoSimilar to how millions of kids go to school without being shot or killed yet people want to pull back as many guns as possible.
- acct1771 8y agoWith guns on all the racks in the trucks in the lot. It's a tired trope, but it's true. This should be fun.
- rco8786 8y agoI think the other ~100k deaths and injuries sustained by firearms every year might also come into play there. The deaths you're speaking of are also not accidental.
- watwut 8y agoSurvival rates are higher now. Rates of serious injuries and deaths due to accident are lower now. Much lower. Not saying that right now is necessary the ideal equilibrum, but kids in past died of accidents and it was not unusual event. It was not mere theoretical construction that might happen to someone else.
- reneherse 8y agoHansel and Gretel, for instance.
- agumonkey 8y agoprobably. Note that my laugh goes bothways. I'm annoyed by the over paranoid life of today, but I realize that we were too candid back in the days. Society oscillates/
- DamnYuppie 8y agoPlease provide evidence of this. The overwhelming, staggering, majority, didn't die gruesome deaths because they played unsupervised.