Survivorship Bias
Photo by McGeddon - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Every day I’m amazed by the wisdom of my Russian and Ukrainian colleagues. Today while we were talking about automated testing and security topics, I shared an old anecdote that happened to me with Sergio Marino and Rodrigo Román 10 years ago where we were discussing the compatibility of the website we were working on with IE 5.5 or some other browser from yesteryear. Since that browser wasn’t in the site’s usage statistics, the idea arose that nobody used the site with that browser, and then we erroneously inferred that its compatibility wasn’t important; to which Sergio and Rodrigo logically refuted saying that if it wasn’t in the statistics, it was because simply people with that browser couldn’t use the site and therefore weren’t visible in the statistics. ...