It's why advice from successful people isn't always the best - the nasty truth about some fields/situations is that only a fraction of people can make it, but to those who *have* made it, success seems like a natural result of hard work, because they don't have a good gauge of how many external factors had to go into it. Term's most commonly used in financial circles, but has applications in multiple fields.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Well, by this point, he actually has some relevant experience. Isn't he excluded by the "born in the US" thing, though? Although if any of the quotes in this thing are accurate... hell, sign me up, he was better than Trump is one sentence in.

They are supposed to figure it out by splitting one of the numbers into two parts (for instance, splitting the "8" into "5+3") in such a way that one of the components combines with the other number to make 10. This is, essentially, teaching the associative property of addition without ACTUALLY bothering to teach what the associative property is, which is stupid.

It's in James chapter 3, I think. Something about a tongue being to a person as a rudder is to a ship.

or "gifted" programs, for the younger ones.

Sounds like some guys I know.

Bingo. Girls are raised to think through the *implications* of what they said - i.e., if I say something, and five logical steps down the line it insults my aunt, my mom's gonna tan my backside. And then guys get pissed at us for thinking through what *they* say and getting mad at the implied insult to a friend, or just our intelligence. God knows my mate got mad at me for insisting he thought through what he said in the first two years of our marriage, but he's gotta admit, he stopped getting blackballed for promotions after that...

He's not talking about people not caring about male suicides, so much as people not caring that there are specifically more male suicides than female suicides - i.e., he doesn't care about suicide, he's just finding a way to make it about gender.

Ummmm.... yeah, I've been told that before. A lot.

I meant chloroform. I forget exactly what it's used for in that context - something about its solvent properties?

Slang is how language evolves. "Puke" wasn't a real word until somebody made it up.