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Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy by driverdan on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @11:45AM (#16529945)
While it's nice to hear those anecdotes it still proves nothing. As OP said, this is survivor bias.
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Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy by RobertRoberts on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:25PM (#16530279)
Are you suggesting that the life of a product does not depend on how it's used?
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Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy by alphakappa on Friday March 09, 2018 @01:56PM (#16553966)
No, and you didn't suggest that he used it in any extraordinarily careful manner either.

His point is that what you have is a nice anecdote, and survivor bias means that you only hear about the products that ended up lasting, but not all the Mercedeses that bit the dust along the way.

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