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The 'Survivorship Bias Plane' meme, also known as 'Plane With Red Dots,' features a diagram of a WWII-era aircraft adorned with numerous red dots representing bullet impact points primarily concentrated on the wings. This image, often sourced from a Wikipedia article on survivorship bias, illustrates the concept through an example of WWII aircraft that survived missions despite being heavily damaged in specific areas. The meme suggests the logical fallacy of focusing only on survivors when making decisions, overlooking those that did not return because they were hit in other crucial areas.
The concept for this meme is rooted in the experiences of the British Royal Air Force during WWII, who observed their aircraft frequently returning riddled with bullets. Hungarian-born mathematician Abraham Wald theorized that reinforcing frequently hit areas was a fallacy; instead, he proposed armoring the parts of the aircraft that showed no damage, suggesting that hits to these parts likely caused losses. The principle illustrates 'survivorship bias,' where decisions are based on information from surviving subjects or objects alone. The diagram was first included in a Wikipedia entry about survivorship bias by editor McGeddon on November 12, 2016, to visually summarize these insights. This illustration likely traces back to a conceptual diagram by Cameron Mill in 2005, designed to represent Wald's statistical research. For further detail, you can read about survivorship bias on Mother Jones and the Wikipedia diagram's origin on the Survivorship Bias page.
Origin: 2016
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After looking at yesterday's losses, the algorithm only lost on long positions, so I should get rid of the long positions
11:19 AM · Nov 4, 2025
first day of algo, 2.8% return
surrely i can annulize this like crypto bro with protocol, right ?
7:24 PM · Nov 3, 2025
@AnonfrXBT @cryptunez it is very clearly stated in the blog post
the monad community was the largest portion of the airdrop
if it doesn’t “seem” this way then it’s because the small amount to high follower count accounts got more views (obviously, given follower numbers)
insane misinfo on X rn
2:07 AM · Nov 3, 2025
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