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Lurking Variables is a story about contributing factors. Specifically, those factors that people do not take into account right away, or better said, are not instinctively taken into account.

Anyway, this is a good read about a very real problem of confirmation bias when handling incidents.

#sre #incidents
read.thecoder.cafe Lurking Variables: How Hidden Factors Can Mislead Your Analysis Proactively segmenting data per influencing factors can help discover lurking variables before they lead to misinterpretations.
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