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		SkyMarshal on Feb 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Nasty Gal Went from an $85M Company to Bankrup... If both successful and failed businesses can have toxic culture, then I think we've eliminated culture being correlated with business success or failure. Allegations to contrary, in either direction, sound more like survivorship bias.

moomin on Feb 28, 2017 | [–]

By your reasoning, we can eliminate terminal cancer as being correlated with life and death.

SkyMarshal on March 9, 2017 | | [–]

Uh, terminal cancer? No, we can't.

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