This showed up in a recent (short) New Yorker article https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/17/dinner-drinks-denominators https://www.newyorker.com/magazi

This 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.