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How much of “why modern X sucks” is attributable to survivorship bias? There were plenty of horrible movies/music/art/etc. made in years past; today, we only wa
by MontyCarloHall 5y ago
How much of “why modern X sucks” is attributable to survivorship bias? There were plenty of horrible movies/music/art/etc. made in years past; today, we only watch and remember the ones that were good enough to survive the test of time.
- the_doctah 5y agoOK, but those weren't the ones setting box office records either. The new Star Wars were terrible, still made truckloads of money, and will also be remembered 50 years from now, just because of the franchise.
- aliswe 5y agoTo be honest the author makes a pretty solid case (albeit opinionated) spanning over multiple clips - its not possible to use survivorship bias against most of his arguments IMO.
- hwers 5y agoThis argument doesn't really hold up if you look at e.g. the year 1999 compared to pretty much any year in say the last decade. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40538583 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40538583. Choose any year and pick the 'survivors' of that year (the top 10 or so movies) and will you really argue that those are better than that list?
- ekianjo 5y agomost good movies of this decade still suck compared to good movies 20 or 30 years ago.