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teravor • today at 5:50 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

survivorship bias is a statistical error, why would you invoke planes? especially after saying this:

    Huh? Survival of what? Are you claiming that Democrat fraud was not found only because the perpetrators are all dead?
also, you are the one invoking domestic political factions. I'm merely wondering why a system where it's difficult to attribute fraud to anyone should be allowed to continue. it's probably more likely that a state actor is going to be committing the fraud just to saw chaos and to perhaps one day be too obvious about it.

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hackyhacky • today at 6:00 AM

> why would you invoke planes?

I already told you why planes are relevant. It sounds like you really don't know what survivorship bias is at all. Please read the article [1]. Why are you in such a hurry to a discuss a topic that you don't understand?

Applying survivorship bias to the current "invisible fraud" situation is putting the cart before the horse.

> I'm merely wondering why a system where it's difficult to attribute fraud to anyone should be allowed to continue.

It's difficult to attribute fraud to anyone in most systems, including systems where there is no fraud. Before attempting to attribute fraud, one must first determine that it exists, and that bar has not been met. Does that answer your question?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

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