{"id":21709,"date":"2023-12-04T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=21709"},"modified":"2023-12-04T11:48:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:48:56","slug":"survivorship-bias-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/survivorship-bias-cartoon.html","title":{"rendered":"Survivorship Bias Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I never learned about survivorship bias and I turned out okay!&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"996\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/I-never-learned-about-survivor-bias.jpg?resize=996%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/I-never-learned-about-survivor-bias.jpg?resize=996%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 996w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/I-never-learned-about-survivor-bias.jpg?resize=608%2C625&amp;ssl=1 608w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/I-never-learned-about-survivor-bias.jpg?resize=768%2C790&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/I-never-learned-about-survivor-bias.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a concept that is incredibly relevant to digital innovation\u2014because when the people on stage tell you how to be successful, you&#8217;re not seeing all the other people that followed that same advice but failed miserably. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, for example, is professor Scott Galloway explaining why the &#8220;worst advice you will ever hear in business school&#8221; is &#8220;follow your passion&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2jIia7aXins?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Scott Galloway explains why following your passion is terrible advice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I never learned about survivorship bias and I turned out okay!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,579,618,1019,1496],"class_list":["post-21709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cartoon","tag-humor","tag-innovation","tag-statistics","tag-survivorship-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/I-never-learned-about-survivor-bias.jpg?fit=1024%2C1053&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-5E9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21712,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21709\/revisions\/21712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}