What is Survivor Bias?
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Example: Old Buildings are much better made than new buildings. There is a beautiful 500 year old church in the middle of my town and the 70 year old house next to mine is a dump.
This is survivor bias, because you see none of the houses that were built when the Church was built. So, you see only the survivor, the church, and so it’s “typical” of buildings of the 1500s. If you had seen all the other buildings from the era fade you’d appreciate that the Church was much, much better built than typical buildings of the era, a more unbiased assessment.
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