3 Apr 2026 3:28 pm
from the things that made it through while ignoring the things that didn’t.Vegas » 03 Apr 2026, 12:15 pm » wrote: ↑ BV is obsessed with my definition of survivorship bias because he doesn't know what it is, so he needs me.
Survivorship Bias for Dumbassess like Veghead:
Survivorship bias is the logical error of drawing false conclusions (something that BV does very well) from the things that made it through while ignoring the things that didn’t. This could be due to (but not limited to) failures that are invisible, discarded into BV's jackhole, or inconvenient to the story being told...such as BV's TDS threads.
Now let's compare this to his definition:
****'s definition of Surviborshop Bias
"it is the mortality of the data."
"mortality of the data” is a fascinating definition, mostly because it applies to almost everything, which means it explains almost nothing.
By that logic:Data “dying” is not survivorship bias.
- My unread emails suffer from survivorship bias
- Dinosaurs committed survivorship bias by going extinct
- My gym membership proves survivorship bias because only my couch survived
Survivorship bias is based on selection. If mortality alone qualified, then every dataset ever would be guilty, which is less a definition and more a poetic shrug.
Every choice in the multiple choice question applies to his lame *** definition.
what things?