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First: correlation is not causation. Second: what percentage of obgyns are black? Could Simpson’s paradox be at play?
by CyberRabbi 6y ago
First: correlation is not causation.
Second: what percentage of obgyns are black? Could Simpson’s paradox be at play?
- dgellow 6y agoFor people who don't know: > Simpson's paradox, which also goes by several other names, is a phenomenon in probability and statistics, in which a trend appears in several different groups of data but disappears or reverses when these groups are combined.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThe percentage of obgyns that are black is not a factor for Simpson's paradox. The only thing that matters is if the black patient population for black doctors is different from that of white doctors (like if the black patient population for black doctors has a smaller percentage of diabetics).