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It’s probably true that biographies suffer from selection bias towards successful people, but simply publishing additional biographies of notable unsuccessful people probably isn’t going to eliminate selection bias very much. To eliminate that bias one would need to actually gather data and develop explanations for what choices and circumstances are favorable to success.



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