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Just because there's possibly some survivorship bias in their viewpoint doesn't mean their statement is automatically false.


I like to call that the survivorship bias bias. Similar to the sunk cost fallacy fallacy


Ha, that's a good name for it. We can go so far in trying to compensate for biases and fallacies that we introduce whole new ones!




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