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		Flimm on April 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment Are you sure you don't have survivorship bias? How much effort have you made to seek out the ones that didn't come back and ask them why?

jiggy2011 on April 15, 2013 [–]

I can't recall any who didn't return, but it's a pretty small sample.

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