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		reggieband on April 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write Isn't that literally Suvivor bias? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

staikken on April 12, 2018 [–]

Not if you include those that did not survive in your sample / analysis. From the link "concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not".

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