Mapping ownership and coverage bias across UK news media
Kevin Keegan's stage 4 cancer diagnosis was discovered during medical scans following a car crash, revealing that accident victims aren't more likely to have cancer but rather more likely to detect it through increased medical examination. This illustrates detection bias—the phenomenon where increased monitoring creates the false appearance that something is more common, a pattern that occurs across policing, workplace safety, and medicine.
Summary based on The Conversation UK article