jimrandomh comments on Simpson's Paradox - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: jimrandomh 26 January 2011 12:38:22PM 2 points [-]

Given our limited abilities any jugdements based on statisics should be taken with a grain of salt.

Everything must be taken with a grain of salt, but the size of the grain varies, and it's smaller for statistical judgments than for most other things.