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Defence strategy: Beware of survivorship bias

Defence strategy: Beware of survivorship bias

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“We have heard only from the survivors. We have no data on those who have been shot down.”

Abraham Wald

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Abraham Wald was a mathematician who worked on problems related to statistics and decision theory during Wo…

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