Offering this comment in a here's-information-you-might-not-have sense, not trying to be a pedant: What you mean is "selection bias" or "sampling bias," the gen

Offering this comment in a here's-information-you-might-not-have sense, not trying to be a pedant: What you mean is "selection bias" or "sampling bias," the general terms, not "publication bias" which is a specific instance of the fallacy.