Simpson's Paradox Skepticism
Commenters debate data visualizations and trends, frequently attributing counterintuitive results to Simpson's paradox, regression to the mean, single data points, small samples, outliers, and other statistical artifacts rather than genuine effects.
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Could be Simpson's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox ?
Really makes you wish the chart showed some measure of variance
Could be sampling discrepancies? I’m no statistician but I would assume there’s a good chance it’s due to the modeling rather than an actual reality.
Sounds like a case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
Simpson's paradox!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
Perhaps regression toward the mean counteracts this?
you are misunderstanding what this data shows.
Because of one data point? Seriously?
Statistics says it's unlikely for small differencees to have large effects.