"Particularly amusing is this recent telephone survey: **a company wanted to find out, on average, how many phones (landline and cell) each household owned. When the results were tallied, the firm was amazed that not a single household claimed to have no phone**. What a masterpiece." -- --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[self-selection-bias]], [[what-you-see-is-all-there-is]], [[feature-positive-effect]], [[swimmer-body-illusion]] , [[survivorship-bias]], [[teaching-anecdotes]] **Source** — [[202308101525 — B — The Art of Thinking Clearly]]