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- Jul 2023
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when we think about self-selection bias and survivorship bias in tandem, we have a really important understanding of how power actually operates
- key observation
- the dynamics and relationship between
- self-selection bias and
- survivorship bias
- gives us insight of how power operates
- The wrong kinds of people who are power-hungry, seek power more in the first place.
- Then they're better at obtaining it.
- They show up in our ordinary lives because they've survived,
- they've made it.
- So when we think about who is powerful,
- we have to think about
- the people who didn't seek power in the first place and
- the people who didn't obtain power in the first place.
- the people who didn't survive in power for very long, and therefore they dropped out.
- The presidents and prime ministers,
- the generals,
- the cult leaders,
- the business leaders,
- we have to think about
- those people are basically people who have survived and who self-selected.
- the dynamics and relationship between
- key observation
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