Comment on Bread mold
marcos@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s a conversation I’ve had more than once with my parents:
– Doing X is fine! Everybody did it in my time and we grew up just fine!
– Didn’t that friend of yours die because of it?
– Yeah, but he’s only a single person, and everybody did X…
Psythik@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Anytime I hear this argument from someone, I tell them to go look up the term, “survivorship bias”.
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 days ago
I guess they forgot to teach that in classes since then
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 days 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.