• Psythik@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Anytime I hear this argument from someone, I tell them to go look up the term, “survivorship bias”.

    I mean we figured this shit out during WWI, FFS. People need to keep up.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        59 minutes ago

        Partly because the famous example is from WW2 not WW1. We did not have planes like that in WW2, unless you exist in the world of Yojou Senki but at that point you have other problems like Niche god, Megalomanic Jesus, and Tanya Von Degurechaff ranting about the Chicago school of economics.