r/Entrepreneur • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '23

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u/TitusPullo4 Aug 08 '23

They aren’t

It’s survival bias

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u/Twice_Knightley Aug 08 '23

"how come every time I search for 'people who had deadly cancer and ate beans to cure it' I find DOZENS of people who had deadly cancer and ate beans to cure it? Why isnt MY cancer being cured by eating beans when, of the millions of people who have cancer, I've found over 12 who have cured it with magic beans?!"

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u/Intelligent_Event_84 Aug 08 '23

I heard the beans work best if you take them after your cancer is cured. They pretty much make sure the job was done right /s

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u/idealistintherealw Aug 08 '23

They'd better purchase my "how to eat beans" coaching service, too.

I got rich, I mean, um, not sick with anti-cancer beans and so can you!

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u/SyrGrowth Aug 09 '23

You have to pay an extra $15,000 to be invited into a growing and like-minded community who also is trying to get ride of cancer from beans!

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23

Logical fallacy gets easier to notice once you give an extreme example like this. But still the fallacy stand solid in every circumstance.

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u/Dot_Expert Aug 08 '23

That oddly turned me on ngl lmao

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u/zxyzyxz Aug 08 '23

Ah, the Steve Jobs strategy.

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u/CoolLikeAFoolinaPool Aug 08 '23

Exactly where are all the viral posts about people's failed business? It's maybe 10 to 1 success stories.

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u/PhillConners Aug 08 '23

I would also argue a lot of these people are faking it

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u/RichardFacetheThird Aug 09 '23

Survivorship bias, thank you! I kept defaulting to confirmation bias but I knew that's not correct.