TL:DR; I was talking about selection bias from you still being alive (I assume).
My point was that, given that the protagonist of Worm almost died, probabilistically, most people won’t have experienced that level of bullying, unless we include dead people in ‘people who have experienced’ because there’s a selection effect from being alive. Conditioning on survival*, probabilistically selects against more extreme torture, and towards none at all. At the limit, no one survives, and thus everyone who is alive has experienced such things with probability zero.
*For more exact numbers, look at the SSC link, and see if they investigate at a finer level that ‘was or wasn’t bullied’. Alternatively, just review the statistics and compare the rates of survival implied by this:
“In fact, the frequently bullied kids had nearly twice as much psychiatric disease, were twice as likely to attempt suicide, were twice as likely to drop out of high school, and even had double the unemployment rate. Worse physical health, worse cognitive function, less likely to get married, et cetera, et cetera.”
TL:DR; I was talking about selection bias from you still being alive (I assume).
My point was that, given that the protagonist of Worm almost died, probabilistically, most people won’t have experienced that level of bullying, unless we include dead people in ‘people who have experienced’ because there’s a selection effect from being alive. Conditioning on survival*, probabilistically selects against more extreme torture, and towards none at all. At the limit, no one survives, and thus everyone who is alive has experienced such things with probability zero.
*For more exact numbers, look at the SSC link, and see if they investigate at a finer level that ‘was or wasn’t bullied’. Alternatively, just review the statistics and compare the rates of survival implied by this: