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Re:99 bits of unsolicited advice by Godel_unicode on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:45PM (#26951349)
No. Evolution is built on favorable mutations being preserved (e.g. the tautology that things which cause life to continue cause life to continue). Survivorship bias is arbitrarily associating traits that survivors have with success. It's the difference between correlation and causation.
Re:99 bits of unsolicited advice by nine_k on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:45AM (#26952093)
My point is that the correlation is the only real data we have.
Re:99 bits of unsolicited advice by Godel_unicode on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:29PM (#27001976)
My point is that correlation isn't real data.