3 ms·
This is a textbook example of survivorship bias. The commentators you see on TV are healthy, because if they were not healthy then they wouldn't be on TV. It te
by cjbprime 12y ago
This is a textbook example of survivorship bias. The commentators you see on TV are healthy, because if they were not healthy then they wouldn't be on TV. It tells you nothing about the incidence of unhealthiness.
- cubano 12y agoFair enough, although the OP was a comment about the seemingly inevitability of CTE for this math-loving lineman, and my comment was nothing but a foil against that particular POV.
- rquantz 12y agoYes that's what I was saying. He definitely, without any hope reprieve, will absolutely have mush-brain when he retires. When I first joined HN, I found the literal-to-the-point-of-obtuseness attitude refreshing. But over time it has started to seem, well, obtuse.