There's another cute (if unofficial) name for this that is slightly more specific than just "selection bias" which is (likely) what your professor was talking a

There's another cute (if unofficial) name for this that is slightly more specific than just "selection bias" which is (likely) what your professor was talking about: it's called the "lizardman constant" The name is originally based from the polling "results" of this article: https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/... And (imo, aptly) named by Scott Alexander in https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...