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the receipt the universe hands you after every bet you didn't know you were placing
means The result or consequence of an action, process, or event — how things actually turn out.
from A plain English compound, 'out' + 'come,' built the same way 'income' is. It started literally as 'that which comes out' — a sprouting, an emergence — before settling into its modern sense of a result. Related to the old verb 'to come out,' it carries the quiet image of something issuing forth, the way a plant comes up from seed or a verdict comes out of deliberation.
- latin roots
- comes from old verb meaning to come out, literally
- survivorship bias
- we study winners and ignore the silent failures
- medicine
- trials now report patient-rated outcomes, not just survival numbers
- hindsight trap
- good outcomes get mistaken for good decisions, and vice versa
- probability
- a single outcome never proves the odds were right
for instance
titanic sinking — 1912 ship collision resulted in 1,500 deaths out of 2,224 passengers
apollo 11 moon landing — july 20, 1969: neil armstrong and buzz aldrin reached the lunar surface