What's the best example of survivor bias? People who survive some sort of disaster, like an earthquake,

an attack, or whatever, and then saying that they had the will to survive, and that's why they

were able to make it out. Um, I'm pretty sure like 99% of the victims that didn't make it

also had the will to survive, but the universe is random and shoved a metal beam through their chest.

After steel helmets were introduced in World War I, the amount of head injuries increased sharply.

When higher-ups were considering scrapping the helmets as a result, it was soon pointed out that these injuries would have been fatal if the men were still wearing cloth caps.

From Gen X here, grew up in the country. My Facebook is filled with,

We didn't need no seatbelts as a kid, and we used to ride in the back of the truck, and we're fine.

Frick those pansies. Yes, I rode in a car without seatbelts. Heck, most of the cars we rode in didn't have them.

And yes, we rode in the back bed of the trucks, looking up over the cabs, going at 60.

And yes, I remember riding with adults that chugged Cause Light as they drove a truckload of hay

and just didn't think it was odd. You know what? A lot of the kids who did that crap

died. That's why you're not going to get anyone arguing on Facebook. They're dead. I think the best

example of the bias is just asking old people how they lived so long. You don't learn anything.

Well, my kids slept on their stomachs and rode around in the front seat of the car with

no seatbelts, all before their first birthdays, and they were fine.

When I was a kid, my grandparents went to take me out somewhere, and my mum went to

hook my car seat up in their car.

Her father lost it, ranting and raving for a few minutes, and then my mum finally said, if you don't put

him in the car seat, you don't get to take him out. End of discussion. He relented, we drove about a

mile up the road, and then he pulled over and took me out of the car seat. I told my mum afterwards,

not to tattel, but because I thought it was cool to ride in the big boy seat, and I never drove anywhere

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