There are, Mark Twain was famously fond of declaring, three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. It’s a succinct summation of something we’re all kind of aware of in our bones ...

That was when the door opened and on walked Zavier Simpson. He went down the center aisle, stopping at each seat, shaking everyone’s hand, wishing each good luck, telling everyone aboard to take ...

In other words, every sub-group’s wage fell, even as the overall wage rose. That’s an example of something called “Simpson’s Paradox”, where an apparent trend reverses when you disaggregate it. Norris ...

As detailed in The Atlantic, Ryan Rodenberg and his research partners analyzed 61,000 men's tennis matches since 1990 to examine the sport's Simpson's Paradox -- when the loser of a match wins ...

The explanation involves a famous old statistical curveball called “Simpson’s paradox” — which isn’t really a paradox at all. It’s just a reminder of why you have to be careful with data.

This is because of Simpson’s Paradox: A valid statistical conclusion for an entire sample may be invalid for all subsamples. Even though more men are admitted overall, it is possible that every ...

How do you prove that smoking is beneficial to your health? By employing Simpson’s Paradox, of course. This paradox shows that a large grouping of data can be worth much less than the sum of its ...

What Simpson's paradox is and how to avoid it, in science as well as in marketing.

These statistics are consistent with excessive use of deadly force against Black people, due to a mathematical phenomenon called Simpson’s Paradox. The key point is that not all encounters with ...