Truth or Bare

We are always missing certain pieces of data, may be more meaningful than the data we have is showing. We just know very little truth about everything...

Here is an illustration:

During World War II, fighter planes would come back from battle with bullet holes. The Allies found the areas that were most commonly hit by enemy fire. They sought to strengthen the most commonly damaged parts of the planes to reduce the number that was shot down.

But actually the reason certain areas of the planes weren't covered in bullet holes was that planes that were shot in those areas did not return.

So this insight led to the armor being re-enforced on the parts of the plane where there were no bullet holes.

The story behind the data is arguably more important than the data itself.