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Economic Reality vs. Political Rhetoric | The Aneesh Karve Series | Episode 5 (WiM272)

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Survivor's Bias

I think we can, I'd like to show some compassion for central planners. This is why central planning is really hard because thinking is hard, and the universe is a very complicated place. And the observations that you have may not deduce or may not infer what you think they infer. That's a great, great point on the survivorship bias. Stop me if I've used this one before. The war planes that were returning back and someone initially observed that, oh, they all had bullet holes in one area. So let's reinforce that one area of the planeBefore someone more intelligent stepped in and said, wait a minute, we need to think through terms of survivorship bias,.

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