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Re:Save Your Sanity, Downgrade Your Life by ryandrake on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:42PM (#15075711)
As incredible as it sounds, when I was 12 I did not have "the ability to immediately have police or paramedics" and by some great miracle, I seem to have survived into my 40s! And the country was actually a much more dangerous place then than it is now, given violent crime statistics. I would leave my house at the crack of dawn, ride my bicycle for miles, and return home for lunch and then when it got dark. All without a mobile phone. I know, totally insane, right?
Re:Save Your Sanity, Downgrade Your Life by Ao7bei3s on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:57PM (#15075834)
Literally survivorship bias.
Re:Save Your Sanity, Downgrade Your Life by Balgair on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:15PM (#15076462)
True, however, I think survivorship bias tends to imply that a relatively small number of the elements pass through the system, thereby making the data gained from said elements biased. It's like looking at only elements that end up 3 standard deviations higher, and then trying to make remarks on the whole system from there. In this case, the vast majority of children will never ever be harmed walking home from school to the point of death, the mean of the normal distribution can be taken to represent the system accurately. I don't know my logical fallacies enough to name this one, but I think you have this inverted.