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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 37 points 4 days ago

Survival bias

Any Amish child with serious allergies was just allowed to die

The main reason why the Amish are able to survive so many modern diseases and conditions is by just having so many children .... not all of them will survive but enough will.

this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2025
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