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During WWII, the Navy tried to determine where they needed to armor their aircraft to ensure they came back home. They ran an analysis of where planes had been shot up, and came up with this.
Obviously the places that needed to be up-armored are the wingtips, the central body, and the elevators. That’s where the planes were all getting shot up.
Abraham Wald, a statistician, disagreed. He thought they should better armor the nose area, engines, and mid-body. Which was crazy, of course. That’s not where the planes were getting shot.
Except Mr. Wald realized what the others didn’t. The planes were getting shot there too, but they weren’t making it home. What the Navy thought it had done was analyze where aircraft were suffering the most damage. What they had actually done was analyze where aircraft could suffer the most damage without catastrophic failure. All of the places that weren’t hit? Those planes had been shot there and crashed. They weren’t looking at the whole sample set, only the survivors.
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Incredible
Absolutely
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Keep doing the good work
Thanks, I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me
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That's looks like a good career already, do what excites you and success will follow you itself. Good luck with all the future endeavors
Engineering can be dangerous when asking the wrong questions! Great little piece of knowledge! thanks :)
Yeah...
Engineers are behind government spying tools and military weapons. We should be conscious of how the designs are used.
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Yeah and also behind things like computers, the internet and steem ;)
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Hahahaa... totally agree
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