Bringing back the Somali shilling

Re:Bringing back the Somali shilling by peteretep on Thursday May 25, 2017 @12:20AM (#14415280)

While I don't agree with you per-se, there's a lot of inherent survivorship bias in your sample group.

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Re:Bringing back the Somali shilling by r00fus on Thursday May 25, 2017 @01:49AM (#14415512)

If it's survivor bias, wouldn't that make the Somali classmates' opinions even more valid (their contemporaries being dead and all)?

Or did you intend to say selection bias?

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Re:Bringing back the Somali shilling by s_kilk on Thursday May 25, 2017 @07:49AM (#14416719)

Indeed.

It's kind of amazing that around here when someone says "yeah my Libertarian Paridise home-country is actually a shithole because people keep getting machete'd to death by roving gangs", someone else strokes their chin and thinks "hmm, I'm not sure I buy it, maybe there's a survivorship bias in there"

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Re:Bringing back the Somali shilling by kolinko on Thursday May 25, 2017 @05:02AM (#14416128)

Survivor bias doesn't have to be based on literal survival.

But yes, in this case a more generic, selection, might be more appropriate.

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