Survivor Bias
The advantage accruing to survivors in the evaluation of a risk. Examples:
1. Lifelong smokers who assert that smoking did them no harm, and therefore could not harm anyone else either. This biases the argument because those for whom smoking was lethal are not around to put their side of the case.
2. The credible material witnesses on the benefit of any current absurdity are those who have thrived on it; those who have not are not well placed to disagree.S135
Related entries:
Fallacies, Personal Experience, Expertise, False Sameness, Metamorphosis.
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