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💻📖 Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. #hackerlaws
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Selection Bias #135

Open dwmkerr opened 5 years ago

dwmkerr commented 5 years ago

See also #134. Another essential law for general critical thinking/reasoning.

umutphp commented 5 years ago

Survivorship Bias (Survival Bias) can be also added to the document as a sub section of Selection Bias or a separate section.

During development, we can sometimes focus on the errors caught in regular tests too much so that we forgot that there might be forgotten flows or unspotted errors.