English Explanatory Dictionary

survivorship bias

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of selection bias in which only the people or things that "survived" some process are considered, while those that did not are inadvertently overlooked because of their lack of visibility.

Word forms

survivorship bias survivorship biases
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