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Absolutely

Biases and fallacies (up to a point) are not end-all.

Gambler's fallacy makes sense if you're throwing dice, not if you're improving yourself, trying different things and walking the distance

Here's the thing with survivorship bias, they might not answer with something that's a guarantee of success (because nothing is), but they won't answer with something that's catastrophic.




I might be reading your comment wrong, but survivorship bias can lead you to do catastrophic things, that is the whole point of the comic.




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