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What is Sample Bias?

5 January, 2015 by James Lawther 12 Comments

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There are some jobs you really wouldn’t want… Perhaps the most dangerous in history was to be a crew member of a World War II bomber (I don’t suppose it matters which side). You shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet, but according to some of the more reliable sources, during World War II: Over […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: assumptions, aviation, data is not information, pareto principle, sample bias, six sigma, video, visual management, World War 2

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