Overcoming Survivor Bias in the Pursuit of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
During World War II, mathematician and statistician Abraham Wald was given a perplexing problem: how best to armor military aircraft to protect them from enemy fire. The aircraft returning from battle were thoroughly inspected, with data gathered on where they’d been hit by bullets, marked by red dots on diagrams. The logical solution would seem to be to reinforce the […]