Reply to post: Beware survival bias

The Wristwatch of the Long Now: When your MTBF is two centuries

Paul Johnson 1
Holmes

Beware survival bias

No doubt there were lots of watches made 200 years ago that stopped working 6 months later. We don't see those. We only see the ones that have lasted 200 years, and we marvel at how reliable they are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

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