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Survivorship bias

Drawing conclusions from winners while the failures stay invisible.

Everyone who succeeded at dropshipping made a video about it. The far larger number who lost money did not. So the visible evidence describes a success rate that does not exist.

It is the single biggest distortion in wealth-building advice. Whenever you see a strategy that looks reliable, ask what the denominator was - how many people tried this and what happened to them.

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