Ah ok so in WWII the aircraft would limp back with some bullet holes in them. The first reaction of some military analysts was like damn, the statistics show that our planes keep getting shot in these particular areas. Better put more of the armor onto those spots!
But it's not like the Germans we're aiming AA guns and machine guns at these really particular places on the planes. They were really just aiming at the planes and doing their best to hit anywhere on the plane.
The reason planes came back with bullet holes in those spots in the diagram, is that when they got shot in the other areas they would just explode or fall out of the sky, and your ass on the airfield wouldn't record a bullet hit in that spot. That's what they call survivorship bias.
Ah ok so in WWII the aircraft would limp back with some bullet holes in them. The first reaction of some military analysts was like damn, the statistics show that our planes keep getting shot in these particular areas. Better put more of the armor onto those spots!
But it's not like the Germans we're aiming AA guns and machine guns at these really particular places on the planes. They were really just aiming at the planes and doing their best to hit anywhere on the plane.
The reason planes came back with bullet holes in those spots in the diagram, is that when they got shot in the other areas they would just explode or fall out of the sky, and your ass on the airfield wouldn't record a bullet hit in that spot. That's what they call survivorship bias.