Psychologyspeaking topic
Survivorship bias: why is it misleading to look only at the winners and try to learn their 'secret'? Where in the story do all the failures we never see disappear?
— Abraham Wald, survivorship bias
practice with this topic
Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.
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