This is an interesting history post about survivorship bias, which is a logic error where you focus on things that survived when you should really be looking at things that didn’t. This can lead to incorrect conclusions because of incomplete data. It starts with talking about allergies and then uses the example of World War II planes that survived combat:
Leading to the logical conclusion that rates for mental illness, autism, rape, allergies &c could be their lowest in history but we don’t know because we don’t have reliable historical data.
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People are going, “Well, I got (measles, mumps, rubella, etc.) AND I’M FINE!” Yes, you’re fine, but the people who were not fine aren’t here to tell us about it.
“I rode around in the back of a pickup truck all the time when I was a kid, and I didn’t die!” Yes, and the people who died aren’t here to tell us they did.