It is called that because one of the most common places it turns up is managers/inspectors doing routine work. Typically if a manager checks in on their report they'll be stuck doing something that takes a lot longer than usual. If an inspector inspects ... I dunno, widgets, then the widget will typically be unusual because of selection biases.
I'd expect that since this is the usual workplace introduction to the economic value of knowing about the bias it got its name there. A lot of confused people trying to work out why their data makes no sense.
The other fun workplace paradox would be if HR ever tries to be data driven, does some metrics over the engineering department and works out that a degree is inversely correlated with any attempted at measure of skill. Fortunately most HR persons are not interested enough in stats to try that approach.
I'd expect that since this is the usual workplace introduction to the economic value of knowing about the bias it got its name there. A lot of confused people trying to work out why their data makes no sense.
The other fun workplace paradox would be if HR ever tries to be data driven, does some metrics over the engineering department and works out that a degree is inversely correlated with any attempted at measure of skill. Fortunately most HR persons are not interested enough in stats to try that approach.