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RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: Kids on Bikes
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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8715768" data-attributes="member: 7026594"><p>Yup.</p><p></p><p>One of the things folks need to bear in mind is Survivorship Bias.</p><p></p><p>All of us who got through doing a bunch of stupid stuff, riding bikes everywhere without helmets, playing on tall playground equipment over pavement instead of padded surfaces, riding in the back of trucks with no seatbelts, etc., without any serious or permanent injuries have a natural tendency to assume that our subgroup of the whole is representative. But it's not, really. And obviously anyone who actually died isn't around to post a contrary opinion on an "our generation was so much tougher than kids today" meme.</p><p></p><p>I do think there's probably been some overcompensation from parents, in part motivated by commercial funded 24 hour news needing a constant stream of anxiety-inducing content to promote viewer engagement. It's stunning sometimes how many folks will swear up and down that nowadays crime is rampant, when violent crime in the US peaked about 30 years ago and has been on a largely steady decline (to about half as common in, say, 2019 than it was in 1994, with a slight increase in the past couple of years). "But you see it in the media every day!"</p><p></p><p>Kids in the US could probably use more independence and experimentation time than they mostly get today. But there have been genuine and large reductions on injuries and deaths from a lot of causes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 8715768, member: 7026594"] Yup. One of the things folks need to bear in mind is Survivorship Bias. All of us who got through doing a bunch of stupid stuff, riding bikes everywhere without helmets, playing on tall playground equipment over pavement instead of padded surfaces, riding in the back of trucks with no seatbelts, etc., without any serious or permanent injuries have a natural tendency to assume that our subgroup of the whole is representative. But it's not, really. And obviously anyone who actually died isn't around to post a contrary opinion on an "our generation was so much tougher than kids today" meme. I do think there's probably been some overcompensation from parents, in part motivated by commercial funded 24 hour news needing a constant stream of anxiety-inducing content to promote viewer engagement. It's stunning sometimes how many folks will swear up and down that nowadays crime is rampant, when violent crime in the US peaked about 30 years ago and has been on a largely steady decline (to about half as common in, say, 2019 than it was in 1994, with a slight increase in the past couple of years). "But you see it in the media every day!" Kids in the US could probably use more independence and experimentation time than they mostly get today. But there have been genuine and large reductions on injuries and deaths from a lot of causes. [/QUOTE]
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