Does your organization ignore the ‘silent evidence’ and fall to Confirmation Bias? —

Specifically in relation to reports of harassment and discrimination. It looks like higher education in Canada might.

Heard of ‘survival bias’? Confirmation bias?

The “silent evidence” often ignored…?

A famous case of survivor bias is the story of statistician Abraham Wald, part of a U.S. classified unit in World War Two. Wald, a Jewish man, had managed to get out Austria just as the Germans took over in the early 1930s.

Wald moved to the United States, and became part of…