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Re:How to get into Y Combinator according to the founders th... by SkyMarshal on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @02:27AM (#20925579)
Did you account for survivorship bias? Eg, did you also ask a bunch of folks who failed to get in what they did, and examine whether they did all the same things as the successful applicants but just got unlucky?

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

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