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Survivorship Bias. "They don't make'em like they used to" because the ones that broke have been dead and buried for decades, and the few that remain are the onl

by scoofy 13y ago

Survivorship Bias. "They don't make'em like they used to" because the ones that broke have been dead and buried for decades, and the few that remain are the only ones to be seen. *edit: i accidentally selectioned a survivorship in my biases.

slantyyz 13y ago
Don't know about that. Those National rice cookers that the OP mentions are simple and extremely reliable. My parents, even though they upgraded, still have two of them in storage, and they work to this day. And they've had them as long as I remember, which would put them around 40 years old.
- scoofy 13y ago
  I'm not saying that National Brand aren't good, i'm saying if you were in the store in 1950, you'd see 3 rice cookers on the shelf and mutter that all this new fangled technology always falls apart, and if it were up to you, you'd still just cook rice in a pot, the old fashioned way. Only 20 years later would you realize that your National Brand cooker is solid as a rock. My point is that the article is talking about the pointlessness and failure prone nature of feature creep, and i'm saying the framing is bs, because the same thing could be said of the National Cooker if it weren't for surviorship bias.
  - slantyyz 13y ago
    >> i'm saying if you were in the store in 1950, Well, here's the problem. In his framing, he got his in 1989, which is a different era from 1950. I had an older model (from the 70s) of the same rice cooker handed down to me when I started college, also in 1989. In 1989, these cookers were were already known to be simple and very reliable for a long time. The framing is actually BS because the company that makes the OP's new rice cooker also makes a simpler rice cooker, that from a functional and esthetic perspective, is almost exactly like the one he replaced. He basically chose to buy the more complex one when a simple one was available, and that's on him, not the technology. The OP's also being disingenuous when he says his new low end rice cooker won't last as long as his old high end rice cooker. I've had my digital Zojirushi for almost ten years, and I don't think it will have any problem lasting 15 more. The good rice cookers are built to last.

by scoofy 13y ago

slantyyz 13y ago

Don't know about that. Those National rice cookers that the OP mentions are simple and extremely reliable. My parents, even though they upgraded, still have two of them in storage, and they work to this day. And they've had them as long as I remember, which would put them around 40 years old.

scoofy 13y ago
I'm not saying that National Brand aren't good, i'm saying if you were in the store in 1950, you'd see 3 rice cookers on the shelf and mutter that all this new fangled technology always falls apart, and if it were up to you, you'd still just cook rice in a pot, the old fashioned way. Only 20 years later would you realize that your National Brand cooker is solid as a rock. My point is that the article is talking about the pointlessness and failure prone nature of feature creep, and i'm saying the framing is bs, because the same thing could be said of the National Cooker if it weren't for surviorship bias.
- slantyyz 13y ago
  >> i'm saying if you were in the store in 1950, Well, here's the problem. In his framing, he got his in 1989, which is a different era from 1950. I had an older model (from the 70s) of the same rice cooker handed down to me when I started college, also in 1989. In 1989, these cookers were were already known to be simple and very reliable for a long time. The framing is actually BS because the company that makes the OP's new rice cooker also makes a simpler rice cooker, that from a functional and esthetic perspective, is almost exactly like the one he replaced. He basically chose to buy the more complex one when a simple one was available, and that's on him, not the technology. The OP's also being disingenuous when he says his new low end rice cooker won't last as long as his old high end rice cooker. I've had my digital Zojirushi for almost ten years, and I don't think it will have any problem lasting 15 more. The good rice cookers are built to last.