We have people that jumped on grenades, bombed, shot at, cut to pieces and survived but how dare we stumble funny on a curb.
Podcast ep this morning talked about a murder that required six knives because they kept breaking. Meanwhile, you can drink too much and drive home and take out a whole family.
This is a great example of survivorship bias! Someone surviving those types of events is a very rare occurrence, so when it happens, it’s noteworthy and the word gets around. You don’t hear about all of the times those things happen and the person doesn’t survive (or at least, you don’t hear about them as prevalently.) Similarly, when someone stumbles on a curb and survives, it’s not news, but when someone stumbles and dies, it is!
Also true. But it’s funnier if you don’t see it that way.
