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ksm1717 on April 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: I graduated into the dot com bust as a programmer ...

I like to call that the survivorship bias bias. Similar to the sunk cost fallacy fallacy

techopoly on April 20, 2020 [–]

Ha, that's a good name for it. We can go so far in trying to compensate for biases and fallacies that we introduce whole new ones!

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