Are you confused by how often fringe viewpoints seem to be promoted by surprisingly large numbers of people online? Let me introduce you to survivorship bias
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You only see people who have lost a lot of weight promoting certain diets You rarely see people who it didn't work forpic.twitter.com/QlsQLryE0o
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It often feels like there are vast hordes of Flat Earthers, but that's just because the 99.9% of people who looked into Flat Earth and thought "Well this is a crock of faux-intellectual buffoonery" don't go online and rant about their experiencepic.twitter.com/TMwL7YHjEu
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When you feel like everyone online is espousing an absurd fringe belief, remember: chances are you're only seeing the survivorspic.twitter.com/Y6jW0q1d4U
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