On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 20:46:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 10/5/2014 3:00 AM, Tobias Müller wrote:All the bad buildings from the ancient romans already came down while thelast 2000 years. The best 1% survived.Yay for survivorship bias!
The same happens when asking people if such or such dictatorship was good or bad. You hear "it wasn't so bad, after all". Yes, because they only ask the survivors, they don't go to ask the dead, too.
Sorry, my rant about politics.
