The visual presentation of the Simpson Paradox was illuminating to me. This was a great article. I remember reading a thought exercise about how statistics ca

The visual presentation of the Simpson Paradox was illuminating to me. This was a great article. I remember reading a thought exercise about how statistics can mislead us - imagine a hospital with 20% patient survival and another competing hospital with 90% survival. Your intuition knowing only that information is that one hospital is better than the other, but then, the exercise has you break down the data based on patient age, reason for admission, etc. And it can be constructed that the "worse" hospital can actually better in every scenario of patient survivability even if in aggregate they are worse. Simpsons Paradox is a reminder that our intuitions can be very wrong.