Survivorship Bias

Quality:

19

Survivorship bias - logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of the latter's lack of visibility. Article "Survivorship Bias" in German Wikipedia has 30.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 6 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Survivorship Bias", its content was written by 41 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 508 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1030 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #3159 in June 2014
• Global: #6848 in April 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #14439 in October 2020
• Global: #9233 in August 2019

There are 26 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Survivorship bias		53.1914
2	Ukrainian (uk) Упередження виживання		31.8328
3	German (de) Survivorship Bias		30.1375
4	Arabic (ar) انحياز البقاء		28.8668
5	Chinese (zh) 倖存者偏差		28.643
6	Finnish (fi) Selviytymisharha		27.3052
7	Catalan (ca) Biaix de supervivència		27.1578
8	Lithuanian (lt) Išlikusiojo klaida		25.5741
9	Portuguese (pt) Viés de sobrevivência		23.2976
10	French (fr) Biais des survivants		22.0216

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Survivorship bias		4 494 562
2	Russian (ru) Систематическая ошибка выжившего		1 871 981
3	Chinese (zh) 倖存者偏差		519 402
4	Japanese (ja) 生存者バイアス		322 187
5	German (de) Survivorship Bias		309 538
6	French (fr) Biais des survivants		227 963
7	Spanish (es) Sesgo del superviviente		150 713
8	Polish (pl) Błąd przeżywalności		117 784
9	Italian (it) Survivorship bias		59 884
10	Portuguese (pt) Viés de sobrevivência		55 634

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Survivorship bias		44 370
2	Russian (ru) Систематическая ошибка выжившего		16 504
3	Chinese (zh) 倖存者偏差		11 557
4	Japanese (ja) 生存者バイアス		5 617
5	German (de) Survivorship Bias		3 083
6	Spanish (es) Sesgo del superviviente		3 034
7	French (fr) Biais des survivants		2 738
8	Polish (pl) Błąd przeżywalności		1 483
9	Portuguese (pt) Viés de sobrevivência		1 062
10	Italian (it) Survivorship bias		1 016

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Survivorship bias		184
2	Russian (ru) Систематическая ошибка выжившего		62
3	German (de) Survivorship Bias		41
4	Chinese (zh) 倖存者偏差		40
5	French (fr) Biais des survivants		31
6	Ukrainian (uk) Упередження виживання		17
7	Hebrew (he) הטיית הישרדות		16
8	Swedish (sv) Överlevnadsbias		13
9	Finnish (fi) Selviytymisharha		11
10	Persian (fa) سوگیری بازماندگی		10

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Biais des survivants		2
2	English (en) Survivorship bias		1
3	Chinese (zh) 倖存者偏差		1
4	Arabic (ar) انحياز البقاء		0
5	Belarusian (be) Памылка ацалелага		0
6	Catalan (ca) Biaix de supervivència		0
7	Danish (da) Overlevelsesbias		0
8	German (de) Survivorship Bias		0
9	Spanish (es) Sesgo del superviviente		0
10	Persian (fa) سوگیری بازماندگی		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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