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Re:Scientists Design Solar Cell That Captures Nearly All Ene... by dwringer on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @04:50PM (#14756544)
"Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not"
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Re:Scientists Design Solar Cell That Captures Nearly All Ene... by hueving on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @06:19PM (#14757172)
Which human species didn't make it past all of the previous catastrophes they predicted?
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Re:Scientists Design Solar Cell That Captures Nearly All Ene... by mikepurvis on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @08:13PM (#14757780)
Those that didn't are largely not around to let us know whether or not anyone was raising the alarm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapa_Nui_people

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Re:Scientists Design Solar Cell That Captures Nearly All Ene... by eeZah7Ux on Thursday July 13, 2017 @08:57AM (#14760845)
Which INTELLIGENT species didn't make it past all of the previous catastrophes they predicted?

...all the ones we never heard of.

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