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What is survivorship bias?

September 1, 2018 by Ian Cobain Leave a Comment

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Plenty anecdotes exist for survivorship bias. Mostly due to people using some past performance, of a stock for example, as an indicator that the same things will happen again. Wiki defines survivorship bias as "the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack … [Read more...] about What is survivorship bias?

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