Comment by chipdart
2 years ago
> That's survivor bias. Fewer people blog about unsuccessful initiatives.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Should we give equal credit to unsuccessful initiatives when their failure is due to screwing up a critical part of the project?
I mean, the successful attempts document what is possible. What do you expect to report when you couldn't even manage to get something working?
Say there are N initiatives to move to cross-compilation. Of those, there are M that deliver the hoped-for benefits, where M <= N. But practically, M < N significantly, say, M < 0.9 N.
Assume bloggers blog mainly about content that contains a positive message. I'm asserting that people blog more readily about their success than their failures.
So when you look at the blog literature, your population is not N, it is M. You don't see the failures because they don't tell the tale.