This reminds me vaguely of the Missing Bullet Holes. Abraham Wald was "assigned" to decide where to armor the planes that were being shot down in WW2. Everyone else was putting more armor where they found the most bullet holes, but Wald had a different idea. He put the armor where the planes had no bullet holes. His reasoning was that the planes that were shot in those areas were destroyed. He was very much responsible for saving the lives of thousands and winning several battles.
I say "allowed" because, to my knowledge, he wasn't even really allowed to know about it. He was more like that friend who isn't allowed to be in the breakroom at work... But he's coming into that breakroom.
Usually it's unintentional. A lot of people only work with what they can see, can't really blame people for not considering what they can't observe.
Hell, half my class is really struggling with "negative findings" or "pertinent negatives", so I have seen how hard it is to move passed that bias.
Well, I did say basically. To be more thorough, "An unintended assumption that something does not exist because no statistical evidence of it is immediately evident." I'm not an expert on it though.
I say "allowed" because, to my knowledge, he wasn't even really allowed to know about it. He was more like that friend who isn't allowed to be in the breakroom at work... But he's coming into that breakroom.
Hell, half my class is really struggling with "negative findings" or "pertinent negatives", so I have seen how hard it is to move passed that bias.