A Boring Dystopia

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Can't even buy chicken in peace (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/aboringdystopia

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/9373065

You wouldn't download a chicken tender.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hello there, sounds like you're experiencing survivorship bias.

Its rare for you to see this, sure. Same for everyone else. But people aren't here to post screenshots of "look at this website where I didn't get flagged for having an ad blocker." So we just see a lot of screenshots where it is a problem, because that's what is noteworthy. There isn't someone out there getting flagged on every single website they open, we're just sampling a large population of user for only the websites where people do get flagged.

Why are we talking about this at all? Because it is becoming more common and more intrusive. This example is particularly egregious because you're already on the website to give them money. They're complaining to the user they they don't get to make money off of them while taking their money, which is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How can it be survivorship bias? Seeing messages about ad blockers doesn't kill you or otherwise make you unable to post about it.

[–] franklin 4 points 9 months ago

I think it'd be more correct to call this example selection bias but survivorship bias does not have to involve morality.

It simply refers to data which misrepresents the likelihood or severity of a failure state due to some failure conditions being excluded from the data. This leads to overly optimistic projections.