survivorship bias
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Kelly argued that existing literature on cult survival often draws upon retrospective studies of religious groups which suffer from survivorship bias, as surviving cults are easier to observe than defunct cults."