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Re:If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire by sandwall on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:13PM (#21131333)
Love this. Reminds me of one of my favorite xkcd's on survivorship bias: https://xkcd.com/1827/
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Re:If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire by perl4ever on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:23PM (#21131971)
The other day, I was asked to graph project completion time against starting year, in the hopes of showing a positive trend.

Well, going from 2017 to 2018 to 2019 seemed to show an obviously improving trend. But then I realized I needed to explain that it's not just a coincidence that 2017 had more projects that took over a year, compared to 2019.

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