The airplane bullet holes analogy was also demonstrated in relation to genetics by Dr Aoife McLysaght in the Christmas Lectures 2018 (41 mins in) - so the lead-in will appeal to many who saw ithttps://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0001r5m/royal-institution-christmas-lectures-2018-who-am-i-2-what-makes-me-human …
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I knew I saw this before!
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@aoifemcl used the same analogy in the#bbc#christmaslectures this year. -
There are many classical examples of such ascertainment bias. Trilobites attacked by asymmetric predators — or did they perhaps have the heart on one side? Left-handers dying off — or were the old people perhaps forced to be used the right hand?
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In the butterfly world, it is directly applicable to the use of beak marks on wild butterflies to measure predation rateshttp://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v378/n6553/abs/378173a0.html …
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So glad reviewer 3 didn’t insist on its removal.
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Thanks very much. Glad you liked it.
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Ah, I am using exactly the same story when I talk about ancient asexual scandals - long surviving asexual lineages of animals.https://twitter.com/KamilSJaron/status/1074947253574533120 …
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Couldn't not share this with you
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Oooh I love this!
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The airplane-armor survivorship bias example is something I try to make junior trainees aware of. It's interesting how many situations in applies to and often changes how you start testing hypotheses or forming questions.
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Great melding of World History and English with molecular biology; not an easy thing to do. I bet the whole thing is interesting and well written.
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Excellent!
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Aha, I knew I'd seen this (long) before!https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/22/220814 …
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Yay-yay , shout out to the power of narrative storytelling in science
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beautifully written
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Very creative, thanks for sharing.
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Beautiful introd.
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