• sbv@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not. This can lead to incorrect conclusions because of incomplete data.

    In this case, the selection process is discovering human-evident back doors. It fits by my reading.