30th October 2010, 10:12 PM
Etoven, I understand where you're coming from, but I remind myself of this. Walking around town is selection bias. The reason all you see are drunks is because that's where they ARE. The people trying to better themselves aren't wandering around town, they're in school or at work doing the important stuff. Generally you just won't see them behind a counter.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)