Program logic bugs vs input/environmental errors

eles via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Oct 5 14:55:49 PDT 2014


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 the
>> last 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.


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