That's the point of the photo. It's a famous example of survivorship bias. Kind of like those stupid things that make the rounds on FB saying "Comment if you rode in the back of a pickup when you were young and you're just fine". The ones who died can't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
I work in property restoration on old and new houses. New ones actually are built terribly. It's code now to use floor joists that are made of two 2x4s laid the weak way, and a piece of aspenite in between them. Aspenite is wood chips and glue that breaks down in contact with moisture.
Kennedy went there and told people to not get the measles vaccine. Some people listened and didn't vaccinate their kids.
Then 5 months later a measles epidemic hit the island. People started dying. They rushed to vaccine everyone but 79 people died in all, mostly babies and toddlers.
1) Talking about infant vaccines people don't choose themselves.
2) The issue isn't "Bobby Kennedy spoke to me and convinced me the vaccine is dangerous", it is "Bonny Kennedy funded a campaign to falsely convince people the vaccine was killing babies."
I mean people that understand infectious diseases and the strategy for placing armor on WW2 aircraft are probably overlapping more than you’d think but that’s a very fine slice!
For those who don't know, the image is a reference to a diagram the Air Force that marks the spots where a bullet pieced through. What they missed, pun intended, was that these are the best places to be shot. You can still fly back! The others just crashed.
Historic nitpick, they in fact figured out that they should reinforce the undamaged parts, that was a famous bit of wartime analysis performed by Abraham Wald as part of the Statistical Research Group. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald
Just saying, it was’t “you”. The Samoans trusted you as a Kennedy, lord knows why, as a Senator. It was your misguided beliefs that led, I believe, to the outbreak and deaths.
I mean lotta conservatives do that shit. I knew a lady at my work who refused to take any blame for one of her fellow churchgoers dying from covid when they started going to church again becasue "well she was gonna die of emphysema anyhow"
Like literally I think she was trying to justify it to herself that it definitely wasnt her congregations fault a woman was dead by telling me all about it and like
My dear elderly friend gets all her news from the daily mail on her iPad. Small rub boats, sink them. I point out that people will die. Response oh they won't drown. I have no mental equipment to deal with this software glitch. She attends church and volunteers for the RNLI. You seriously couldn't..
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Just brilliant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
But he's actually correct in a much more insidious way
1: People saw the anti-vax campaigns Bobby helped promote, but most of them have no idea who he is.
2: Those people made decisions about vaccines for their children, and it's those children who died.
Most of the time it's slow people trying to argue it's actually good that new housing is made out of paper mache and sawdust
Sampling bias is a favorite of illiterate shitheads like Kennedy Jr
Then 5 months later a measles epidemic hit the island. People started dying. They rushed to vaccine everyone but 79 people died in all, mostly babies and toddlers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
1) Talking about infant vaccines people don't choose themselves.
2) The issue isn't "Bobby Kennedy spoke to me and convinced me the vaccine is dangerous", it is "Bonny Kennedy funded a campaign to falsely convince people the vaccine was killing babies."
This is a Savage.
(Yes, I’m being silly.)
I mean people that understand infectious diseases and the strategy for placing armor on WW2 aircraft are probably overlapping more than you’d think but that’s a very fine slice!
The compression ratio words/pictures is 1:1000 minimum
Survivorship bias, on a plane!
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no?
Planes that had holes in them made it back. Planes that had holes in the places that needed armor didn’t.