Survivorship bias

Tendency to look only at something that succeeded ("survived") and forgetting to take failures into account. A common error in thinking.


Tags: design process product design

ID: 2021-0113-0844

References:

  • Taleb, 2005
  • Ahrens, 2017 (ch. 12.5)

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