• silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    this diagram is showing where planes that got shot and returned to base. a naive approach to the problem would be to reinforce the bits that got shot up. except what this diagram is actually showing is where planes can get shot and still safely return home - the places where there’s NO damage are the critical areas of the plane since no plane returned home after sustaining damage to those parts. that is, it’s a diagram showing survivorship bias.