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Yeah, I see your point, never thought of it that way.

Just also darkly hilarious — “I only buy <PRODUCT> with a history of product recalls”.

There was a time in which we used to avoid such things…



Reminds me of the survivorship bias exposed by Abraham Wald:

https://medium.com/@christian.dobbert/the-missing-bullet-hol...




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