What is Survivor Bias?
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When a successful actor says, “Follow your dream”, you don’t hear about the millions of aspiring actors who followed *their* dream, and wasted years of their life trying and failing to get their “big break”, while working menial jobs in Hollywood for little money, only to eventually give up and move on.
That’s an example of survivor bias: the condition where we only see evidence of a subset of the total data available, because the rest of the data is filtered by a selection process of some kind.
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