"survivorship bias" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: survivorship biases [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} survivorship bias (countable and uncountable, plural survivorship biases)
  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. Wikipedia link: survivorship bias Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biases Translations (bias): 幸存者偏差 (xìngcúnzhě piānchā) (Chinese Mandarin), selviytymisharha (Finnish), biais du survivant [masculine] (French), biais des survivants [masculine] (French), Überlebendenverzerrung [feminine] (German), błąd przeżywalności [masculine] (Polish), оши́бка вы́жившего (ošíbka výživševo) [feminine] (Russian)

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