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Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”

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jrm4 ◴[] No.45673780[source]
Funny, I just recommended Antifragile by Nassim Taleb to my book club, and of course, that idea is pretty much the perfect foil to this.
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kelseyfrog ◴[] No.45673887[source]
airplane_with_red_dots.jpg
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waldothedog ◴[] No.45674100[source]
I get the ref, but not the link to anti-fragile or NNT. Help me out?
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1. Benanov ◴[] No.45674353[source]
As we know or a quick STFW will educate - the "airplane with red dots" refers to the idea that the planes that came back had damage indicated on them with red dots and so the initial idea was that the designers of the planes needed to armor those spots...

When it was really the case that the spots that weren't damaged were the ones that actually needed to be armored, because the planes that took damage there didn't come back.

In this case, the data that survived a selection process ("I just recommended this book that dovetails nicely") is the only data considered, when really all of the data needs to be considered.

I'm seeing this as "you're reading the data wrong" or more accurately "you're barking up the wrong tree"

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2. ahazred8ta ◴[] No.45676324[source]
That dovetails with "Dolphins must be friendly, because we always hear about them pushing drowning sailors to shore, and we never hear anything about dolphins pushing drowning sailors out to sea." Wait a minute...