{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The Ethical Nag","provider_url":"http:\/\/ethicalnag.org","author_name":"Carolyn Thomas","author_url":"http:\/\/ethicalnag.org\/author\/czthomas\/","title":"Survivorship bias: when we focus only on success","type":"link","html":"From Toastmasters to serious illness to the stock market, 'survivorship bias' happens when we  we tend to focus on the living instead of the dead, or on winners instead of losers, or on successes instead of failures. Not only do we then fail to recognize that what is missing might have held important information, but we fail to recognize that there is missing information at all.","thumbnail_url":"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolynthomas.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/atthetop_1_excellent.jpg?fit=440%2C330","thumbnail_height":293,"thumbnail_width":440}