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1 Dipl. fckng Ing.*"Never take health tips from world’s oldest people, say scientists"
Because this would be
Survivorship Bias
→ "logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not."
E.g. Abraham Wald suggested reinforcing aircraft in the undamaged areas of the returning bombers.
The Wikipedia article features even more interesting examples of this fallacy.
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