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

30 Post author: CarlShulman 30 July 2012 05:55PM

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Comment author: thomblake 03 August 2012 04:24:43PM 1 point [-]

Can you remember what that was?

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 04 August 2012 09:03:49AM 2 points [-]

If you're dealing with statistics averaged from a whole bunch of data, you should check a couple of examples in more detail and see if they match the conclusions you're drawing from the whole data set.

So in this example, checking with a couple of companies to see if their wages really did stagnate.

Comment author: thomblake 06 August 2012 02:54:01PM 0 points [-]

Thanks!