survivorship bias
logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of the latter's lack of visibility
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survivorship bias
Summary
survivorship bias is a type of bias[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of type_of_bias entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,562 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- survivorship bias authored Abraham Wald[3].
- survivorship bias authored The Statistical Research Group of World War II[4].
- survivorship bias's image is recorded as Survivorship-bias.svg[5].
- survivorship bias's instance of is recorded as type of bias[6].
- survivorship bias's subclass of is recorded as cognitive bias[7].
- survivorship bias's subclass of is recorded as selection bias[8].
- survivorship bias's place of publication is recorded as Columbia University[9].
- survivorship bias's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[10].
- survivorship bias's publication date is recorded as +1943-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
- survivorship bias's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05sphx[12].
- survivorship bias's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779408593[13].
- survivorship bias's Brilliant Wiki ID is recorded as survivorship-bias[14].
- survivorship bias's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/SurvivorshipBias[15].
- survivorship bias's Golden ID is recorded as Survivorship_bias-W3B5A8[16].
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Works and Contributions
Authored works include Abraham Wald[3], a mathematician[17], 1902–1950[18], of Kingdom of Hungary[19], awarded the Fellow of the Econometric Society[20], specialised in functional analysis[21] and The Statistical Research Group of World War II[4].
Why It Matters
survivorship bias ranks in the top 6% of type_of_bias entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,562 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]