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There is also the classic story about returning war planes. You can try to make sense of the damage, the bullet holes, and try to create strategies around how to improve affected areas. The problem is that the damage you actually want to inspect and prevent is on the planes that did not make it back, the ones you do not have an abundance of data on.


The classic war planes story was about Abraham Wald - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald




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