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Why are people saying Lindy over survivorship bias these days?
by carabiner 4y ago
Why are people saying Lindy over survivorship bias these days?
- stephc_int13 4y agoI think those two are related, but survivorship bias seems more random.
- celeritascelery 4y agoThey are unrelated things. The lindy effect says the future lifespan is proportional to how long it’s been around already (The Bible writings have been around 2000 years, so it will probably be around for another 2000 years). Survivorship bias is saying that things that survive are representative of the whole sample (saying the The Brothers Karamazov was typical for literature of that period without other evidence would be an example of survivorship bias).
- kuhewa 4y agoSimilar but not the same concept. Lindy is that age predicts life expectancy for non-perishable items. Survivorship bias has nothing to do with the future. I could have used survivorship bias in that post and lost little, but the implication is that Dostoyevsky is highly likely to have more staying power than a randomly selected novel published 142 years later.