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Another example for the README
I always think this is another great example on selection bias --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Lin#Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial
If the contest hadn't been blind, we'd likely never have heard of a bias, but since it was, the backlash revealed it was there:
Lin believes that if the competition had not been "blind", with designs submitted by number instead of name, she "never would have won". She received harassment after her ethnicity was revealed. Prominent businessman and later third party presidential candidate Ross Perot called her an "egg roll" after it was revealed that she was Asian. Lin defended her design in front of the United States Congress, and eventually a compromise was reached.
Oof, great example. Thanks for this!