“The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life” is a classic Slate Star Codex post about it, based on the 2014 LessWrong post “Why the tails come apart”. Both of them use the phrasing “tails coming apart” to refer to the bias, since in the graph it seems like there are two separate “tails” of people while they are both a subset of the larger circular group of people.
Interestingly, neither posts refer to the term “collider bias”, but they definitely all are talking about the same concept.
Hm, I had never thought of the tails coming apart as an instance of collider bias before, but I guess it makes sense: you are conditioning on “X is high or Y is high”.
“The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life” is a classic Slate Star Codex post about it, based on the 2014 LessWrong post “Why the tails come apart”. Both of them use the phrasing “tails coming apart” to refer to the bias, since in the graph it seems like there are two separate “tails” of people while they are both a subset of the larger circular group of people.
Interestingly, neither posts refer to the term “collider bias”, but they definitely all are talking about the same concept.
Hm, I had never thought of the tails coming apart as an instance of collider bias before, but I guess it makes sense: you are conditioning on “X is high or Y is high”.