> This example is not Simpson’s paradox, it is simply the misuse of statistics. If you read to the end of the post, you'll see that the author was using this c

> This example is not Simpson’s paradox, it is simply the misuse of statistics. If you read to the end of the post, you'll see that the author was using this correlation to prove that the mistake is identical to another claim related to COVID [1]. This COVID-related correlation doesn't seem as spurious as the Ghostbusters one, but that's because it's much harder to spot errors like this when variables aren't so "random". [1]: "Vaccinated English adults under 60 are dying at twice the rate of unvaccinated people the same age"