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Road safety

overestimation of a safety countermeasure's effect because sites chosen for treatment had unusually high recent crash counts that would fall anyway.

In road safety, bias-by-selection refers to overestimation of a safety countermeasure's effect because sites chosen for treatment had unusually high recent crash counts that would fall anyway. This meaning comes from Hauer (1980) in Accident Analysis & Prevention.[1]

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References

Hauer, E. (1980). Bias-by-selection: Overestimation of the effectiveness of safety countermeasures caused by the process of selection for treatment. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 12(2), 113-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-4575(80)90049-4

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