survivorship bias
/sərˈvaɪvərʃɪp ˌbaɪəs/
focusing on successes while overlooking failures
survivorship bias in a sentence
“Survivorship bias: studying only successful entrepreneurs, ignoring the many who failed.”
Origin of survivorship bias
Latin supervivere to outlive + bias from Old French biais
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