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Survivorship bias towards inventors who lived to write up their experiments? I wonder how many people were killed developing these who _didn't_.
by imglorp 7y ago
Survivorship bias towards inventors who lived to write up their experiments? I wonder how many people were killed developing these who _didn't_.
- pavel_lishin 7y agoI would argue that if your invention killed you before you got a chance to write it up, it isn't a successful invention.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoThat too depends - was it a death ray?
- JoshTriplett 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_inventions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_th...