TheOtherDave comments on Simpson's Paradox - Less Wrong

68 Post author: bentarm 12 January 2011 11:01PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 13 January 2011 05:32:56PM 3 points [-]

Nice. I'd never heard of Simpson's paradox before, and I don't think this sort of statistical-interpretation glitch would have occurred to me as a possibility to stay aware of in real-world cases (e.g., the Berkeley study), despite understanding the underlying math, although it's obvious once pointed out.

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