JoshuaZ comments on Simpson's Paradox - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 26 January 2011 08:30:28PM 1 point [-]

The less variables factored in the less Faith one should have in the informations validity. In the case of treatment A or B in the example, if this is all the information you have to go on I'd probably tossing a coin.

That data is complicated or difficult to evaluate is not a good reason to ignore it.