What is Survivorship Bias?

We're asking the wrong people about military suicide

I recently had a publisher turn down a book proposal after doing what seemed to them to be a good faith effort at due diligence; they asked other veterans if there was a “felt need” for my proposed martial hermeneutic. The acquisitions editor even made sure to keep these “reviewers,” as they called them, anonymous. But it felt fishy from the get-go, and…