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I called this "survivorship bias" in my comment but I think you are right, and it's probably more of a fundamental attribution error [1]. Just like how media fetishizes the weird habits of billionaires, ignoring that a) each billionaire will have their own weird habits, and b) tons of people have weird habits without being substantially wealthy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error



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