this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] C0rkedchimp@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey I just said I reqllly found your comment really informative and insightful, and albeit I have some vague ideas on how it is part of survivorship bias, i can't quite tell what you refer to?

What I'm talking about is mostly negative bias so I might be wrong

Thanks for your time :)

[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if you want to explain why lemmy looks like it does now, you can just look at the people who got there, but if you want a clearer picture you should also look at people who didn't. failure to do that introduces survivorship bias. currently most of new users comes from reddit, so you already have ready-made set of failed lemmy users

and also there's obscure reference to scarfolk council