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Blazlyn t1_j1i4ll7 wrote

Reply to comment by Trendiggity in Where history has been fought by RedTomatoSauce

There are a lot of reasons why they don't make it that way anymore and what you see standing is survivorship bias. Dollars, life of building, and cost of life all play into the changes. Construction used to have formulas for how many people would die per $1,000 spent on different types of construction.

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F0sh t1_j1jeb24 wrote

it's not like large numbers of 100-year-old houses in the places we're talking about have been destroyed (through natural processes - we're not talking about whether buildings can survive a bomb blast).

You can't have a survivorship bias if the vast majority of things from the population survived.

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