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Simpsons’s Paradox in the Slush Pile

Aidan Posted on October 21, 2009 Posted in Reading, Writers, Writing Tagged with Statistics, Writing

A look at how statistics can sometimes be misleading.

http://anilmenon.com/blog/2009/10/simpsons-paradox-in-the-slush-pile.html

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