Only recently learned of fascinating survivorship bias story of WWII bombers. Any analogous stories? johndcook.com/blog/2008/01/2 ht
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Bomber story analogy: "Don't learn from mistakes of successes but perfect execution areas. Because mistakes in those areas must be fatal"??
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Simpler version: when emulating successes, strengthen areas where they apparently got lucky and hit no significant stumbling blocks.
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also told well by in amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Wro . Perhaps more there, but that's the one that stuck with me
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