It’s one of those phrases I just kinda nod my head and go “yeah” when I hear it. I’ve looked it up before, but the definition never stuck. Same thing happened with “survivorship bias,” but I eventually figured that one out.
I guess I need it explained in a different way for it to stick.
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> Same thing happened with “survivorship bias,” but I eventually figured that one out.
For everyone else: Survivor bias is when (for instance) all the old buildings you see are pretty, because the ugly old buildings got knocked down. The set of *things that you see* is a biased sample of *things that ever were*, because some things got eliminated and others survived.
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