Megan Price

Megan Price, a statistician and director of research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, dives into the pervasive issue of survivorship bias. She explains how often only successes are visible while failures are obscured, shaping our understanding and decisions. The conversation touches on the groundbreaking contributions of mathematicians during WWII that transformed military strategies by analyzing failures. Price also discusses her work in advocating for human rights through data, tackling the challenges of documenting violence and the importance of representation in data-driven narratives.