Survivorship bias at its finest
And yet, there are loads of studies testing things like specific therapy techniques where 2 thirds of the people trying it dropped out, and those who stayed show a tiny marginal improvement. And no mention at all of survivorship bias?! Like if the thing is not working or making my problems worse, I’m more likely to drop out.
But the people doing the study seem to either be oblivious or willfully ignorant of this.
Check out survival analysis (quick video on the YouTube link), people dropping from studies is acknowledged and accounted.
In my field it often isn’t.
In a well done RCT of course it is. My field has crazy drop out rates and the majority of reviewers and authors don’t bat an eye.
This reminds me of “startup culture”. CEOs are like “we have to move fast and break things! Look at this successful startup that did!” but don’t think about the thousands of startups that also were reckless, and then failed.
Startup culture is so toxic. I’d rather give Rob Schneider daily foot massages with truffle and lavender oil than ever work for a startup again.
How about a rob Schneider foot massage startup?
There is two popes per square kilometer in Vatican…
The average person has 1 ball and 1 teat.
r*ssian roulette was invented with a specific free turning revolver drum in mind that makes it impossible to shoot yourself with one bullet loaded.
update: probably not a fact
Why did you censor Russian?
The intern*t is weird
Very much so
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They’re an ostrich?
Makes sense
If you hold it right.
That would be a stupid gun design, if an unevenly loaded drum means you can’t shoot anymore (or would have to manually align the bullet with the barrel - good luck! Who needs fingers anyway, amirite).
Statistics don’t lie.
You’re thinking of hips.
Only 500 people answered the poll.