Every leader becomes a liar when they fall victim to selection bias (also called “survivor bias”). Survivor bias skews judgment. As a leader, your success—your selection as the leader, for example—can ...

verybody has a favorite color and season—preferences that seem innate, always defying reason. Auditors are no different when it comes to haphazard sampling, a process in which—ideally—they choose ...

Enke, Benjamin, Thomas Graeber, and Ryan Oprea. "Confidence, Self-Selection and Bias in the Aggregate." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30262, July 2022.

In a recent study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, a group of researchers identified and tested study characteristics that may bias estimates of all-cause mortality risk ...

At birth, our minds are like blank sponges ready to absorb new information. Then, as we grow up, we may start to let some of what we’ve learned mess with how we take on new information. This is known ...