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You feel fine, but you don’t know what effect it can have on others. This is a selection bias. By definition, all the survivors of the most atrocious things ca
by hk__2 3y ago
You feel fine, but you don’t know what effect it can have on others.
This is a selection bias. By definition, all the survivors of the most atrocious things can say "I went through XYZ and I’m still alive". That doesn’t make this XYZ something you would recommend to anyone.
- mrguyorama 3y agoIf seeing a mans butthole causes you serious psychological trauma, you probably have bigger problems to worry about than seeing a mans butthole. Everyone has a butthole. Do kids never look in the mirror? Do kids never explore bodies? We spent 100k years or more looking at each other in the nude and somehow our species didn't all go insane. Nakedness probably doesn't hurt anyone.
- spondylosaurus 3y agoEveryone has a butthole but most people's buttholes don't look like that guy's butthole. I hope.
- hk__2 3y agoThat’s not simple nakedness, otherwise the HN discussion on this entry would have been much less heated.
- squidbeak 3y agoPresuming every conceivable avenue for surprise will lead to trauma, what's left for anyone to enjoy?
- immibis 3y agoNone. You must be a perfect model of boring corporate mediocrity, or else you're harming the children.
- LanceH 3y agoSelection bias of one data point versus no data at all.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoWhat's the selection bias here? Is the claim that there's some huge population so emotionally scarred from seeing a shock image that they permanently left the internet? Or died?
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- hk__2 3y agoMy bad; it’s a survivor bias, not a selection bias.
- hk__2 3y ago*survivor bias