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Comment by stymaar

6 hours ago

> True, but this is also a stunning example of survivorship bias.

It's not “survivorship bias”, it's merely the illustration that mathematics are a strong link problem: it's the strongest result that determines the impact of the field (not the weakest, like in weak-link problems).

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