… and finally we have large amounts of historical experience with the situation.
This would be the mother of all sampling biases (read the mouse-over text)...
Though I won’t dispute your conclusion, we are the ones who survived after all.
For those of us who can’t view XKCD, could someone comment with what it said?
The bit that Dojan was referring to, the mouse-over text, is:
On one hand, every single one of my ancestors going back billions of years has managed to figure it [parenting] out. On the other hand, that’s the mother of all sampling biases.
This would be the mother of all sampling biases (read the mouse-over text)...
Though I won’t dispute your conclusion, we are the ones who survived after all.
For those of us who can’t view XKCD, could someone comment with what it said?
The bit that Dojan was referring to, the mouse-over text, is: