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Simpson’s Paradox
- philshem 5y agoThis showed up in a recent (short) New Yorker article https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/17/dinner-drinks-denominators https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/17/dinner-drinks-... > The first course of math, delivered during the first course of dinner (a scattering of salads), was a statistics starter called Simpson’s paradox, which explains how apparent biases in large samples can disappear in smaller ones. A famous example: For the University of California at Berkeley’s graduate programs in 1975, over all, men were admitted at a higher rate than women, but, program by program, women were admitted at a higher rate.
- Borrible 5y agoIn case you are a handsome man and inclined to enlighten the ladies at the dinner party, just mansplain them why they are the real jerks, with Berkson's Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
- incrudible 5y agoLet me see if I get the analogy right: "Being handsome positively correlates with being a jerk" as attested to by the ladies at the dinner party. Since all the ladies only ever date handsome men (making them the jerks), they fail to account for all the men who are not handsome, but also jerks.