Subj : Re: Submarine Deaths
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Blue White
Date : Fri Jun 30 2023 14:45:15

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Blue White <=-

 pF> There's a story about bomber designers looking at damage patterns of US
 pF> bombers during WW II. There were definite patterns of bullet holes in
 pF> surviving airplanes that they wanted to go ahead and re-inforce. One of
 pF> the engineers said they needed to look at the areas that *didn't* get
 pF> hit, hypothesizing that the ones that were hit in those areas didn't
 pF> make it back.

 pF> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

That makes sense to me.  If the holes on planes that made it back were not
enough to bring them down, I would think looking were they were not hit and
figuring out why those areas might make a plane more vulnerable would make
sense.


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