survivorship bias; survival bias
A cognitive bias where conclusions are drawn only from surviving or successful examples, ignoring those that failed or were eliminated. Used in statistics, business, and history.
If you don't watch out for survivorship bias, you'll overlook the failures.
Analyzing only successful entrepreneurs introduces survivorship bias.
Selection bias is a broader category of bias from non-random sample selection; survivorship bias is a specific type of selection bias.
Compound of 生存者 (survivor) and バイアス (bias), a direct calque of English 'survivorship bias'.