Selection bias is everything

9/27/2023

It is impossible and perhaps not useful to avoid selection bias.

Related Concepts and Applications

Selection bias shapes every aspect of decision-making and perception:

Productivity and Focus:

• 2024-08-28-focus-beats-effort - How selection of focus areas determines success more than effort level
• prioritize-high-leverage - The bias toward high-leverage activities as a useful form of selection bias

Perceptual Mechanisms:

• Weber's Law - How our baseline experiences create selection bias in what changes we notice
• Conservation-of-resources - How resource constraints force selective attention and decision-making

Adaptation and Change:

• 2020-03-06-remote-work-antifragility - How selection of remote-first practices creates resilience advantages
• optimize-for-the-long-term - Long-term optimization as a form of deliberately biased selection

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