Simpson's Paradox: Better in Every Group, Worse Overall
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You compare two basketball players' shooting percentages by shot type and overall, see the ranking flip, and fix the comparison by giving both the same shot mix.
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Lessons in this course
- Monty Hall: Enumerate Every Case, Then Stay or Switch Locked
- The Birthday Paradox: A PRODUCT Table and Its S-Curve Locked
- Simpson's Paradox: Better in Every Group, Worse Overall Locked
- The Base-Rate Fallacy: A 99% Test That Is Usually Wrong Locked
- The Gambler's Fallacy: Independence and How Common Streaks Really Are Locked
- Bertrand's Box & the Boy-or-Girl Paradox: Conditioning by Counting Locked
- The St. Petersburg Paradox: Infinite Expected Value, Tiny Price Locked
- Regression to the Mean: Why the Best Scores Drop on a Retest Locked