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Vaniver comments on [Retracted] Simpson's paradox strikes again: there is no great stagnation? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 30 July 2012 07:39:16PM *  9 points [-]

But they're not "counteracted" at all.

They are for the metric of median wages.

There's a similar situation with PISA scores: American students of all races are the highest or second highest scorers of that race. The average American PISA score is mediocre, though, because the US's racial balance is not, say, Shanghai's or Finland's racial balance.