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Also, I find interesting the survivorship (or perhaps anti-survivorship?) bias in a marital counselor talking about how a certain arrangement doesn't work..

It's very risky and just looking at apple or google over the last ten years is survivorship bias.

Legal marriage is a shortcut for a lot of civil laws, like rights of survivorship and power of attorney.

Even if there is a model that performs well, how do you account for survivorship bias?

That body of evidence should outweigh the survivorship bias of those few who were in-fact transited through it at specific times.

As to survivorship bias, that's huge but it's not just based on good ideas.

I think that there is a bit of survivorship bias that warps our understanding of old science.

Since you've looked at the data, could this be survivorship bias?

Basically, the same formula for most successful paths in life: Luck, smarts, and survivorship bias.

There's a good case to be made for survivorship bias.

Of course, there's a survivorship bias to my anecdotal evidence.

Don't be fooled by randomness and survivorship bias.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of survivorship bias and I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who would benefit from being reminded that "...

Wikipedia has a good page on it: Survivorship bias, or survival bias, is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that "survived" some process and inadvertently overlooking those that did not because of their lack of visibility.

"But humanity has a remarkable capacity to invent new outlets to fill our waking hours as we redeploy resources used to make stuff to make other stuff or sell stuff." Mere coincidence combined with survivorship bias.

Survivorship bias does not begin to explain this; there have not been anything resembling 33 million hedge funds over the course of history.

Survivorship bias is the worst kind of selection bias.