Survivor Bias

Definition

Survivor Bias refers to the logical error of focusing only on the people or things that made it through a selection process while ignoring those that didn't, leading to skewed conclusions. For example, studying only successful companies to understand success without considering the failures.

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Translation

The trap of looking only at the winners and assuming they did everything right—while conveniently forgetting about the countless others who did the same thing and crashed and burned.