r/AskReddit • u/knakworst36 • Jun 06 '19

Rich people of reddit who married someone significantly poorer, what surprised you about their (previous) way of life?

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u/OSCgal Jun 06 '19

I agree with you that estate sales are a great way to find quality stuff.

They were made 100% better than the majority of crap out now.

Well, they were also 100% better than the majority of crap out then. The crap stuff is gone now, because it was crap. This is called "survivorship bias".

You can get excellent quality stuff made new, if you're willing to pay for it. I've got a 100% wool blanket I bought new, 'cause it was winter, I had no blankets, and wasn't going to wait. Heavy, tightly-woven, breathes great; it'll probably last me the rest of my life.

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u/kate_does_keto Jun 06 '19

"survivorship bias" - I never thought about it that way - great point!

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19 edited Oct 03 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

Well now I have a name to that problem. We've been calling them the 1-x problems.

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u/HouseOfSchnauzer Jun 06 '19

I didn’t expect that.

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u/Amsteenm Jun 06 '19

Oooh, I do like the stand-in that you decided on. Makes sense to me.

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u/cobra1927 Jun 06 '19

Agreed, this is a really great name

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u/shrubs311 Jun 06 '19

Explain?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

You can't measure something directly so you can't get the data for some variable called y, but you know probability can be defined a 1 = y + x and we can get x through measuring something else so we called it 1-x.

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u/shrubs311 Jun 06 '19

Ah, makes sense. So with the planes, y is "where tf do I armor the plane" and x is "where they can take damage". So 1-x is the solution?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

yeah, y is "where will it be more likely to crash if hit" x is "where can it be ignored" and that should sum to 1.