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21Cognition

Survivorship Bias

Invisible Failures.

If

We study only the successes that survived and draw conclusions from them, ignoring the silent graveyard of failures that used the same strategy. The data we see is fundamentally skewed.

Then

Before adopting a strategy because "Company X succeeded with it," research how many companies failed using the same approach. The dead don't write blog posts.

Unless

Failure Studies / Post-mortem Culture

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