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Re:Exposure to the bacteria in soil can be good for mental h... by agumonkey on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @02:07AM (#14504065)
It's a weird situation to be an adult. You got cautious along the years (for good or bad reasons) and somehow forgot what you did. When I remember all the crazy things we did as 5yo .. climbing trees out of the blue, alone, no supervision, no phones. We're all alive and well.
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Re:Exposure to the bacteria in soil can be good for mental h... by MikeTheGreat on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @02:19AM (#14504108)
True, we're all alive and well.

Simultaneously,

that's the definition of survivorship bias / selection bias right there :)

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Re:Exposure to the bacteria in soil can be good for mental h... by 24gttghh on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @09:53AM (#14506431)
I hate to say it but...what about Natural Selection bias?
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Re:Exposure to the bacteria in soil can be good for mental h... by pseud0r on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @05:24AM (#14504782)
Not all kids I went to school with is alive, for example there was one guy who one day went fast down a hill on his bicycle, straight onto the road and was hit by a car.

One guy I know let his four year old play outside, just for a short while without supervision, he fell into a pond and drowned.

I always felt safe when I was five years old playing outside by myself though, even though I sometimes went several kilometers into the forest. There was no cars there and I was already a good swimmer, so I can't really imagine anything could have happened though.

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Re:Exposure to the bacteria in soil can be good for mental h... by someSven on Thursday June 08, 2017 @05:19PM (#14517273)
I thought about this a while ago. I even don't know about any incident in which a child was seriously hurt by playing outside in my former hometown or the villages around, while my whole time as a child or teenager. Though, maybe I forgot about something...
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