• marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    491·
    8 天前

    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.worldEnglish
      18·
      7 天前

      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 WWII, FFS. People need to keep up.