{"id":1189,"date":"2014-07-14T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T04:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2014-07-14T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T04:10:06","slug":"on-simpsons-paradox-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/14\/on-simpsons-paradox-again\/","title":{"rendered":"On Simpson&#8217;s Paradox. Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simpson&#8217;s paradox must have an unbounded longevity, partly because traditional statisticians, so it seems, are still refusing to accept the fact that the paradox is causal, not statistical  (link to <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.cs.ucla.edu\/pub\/stat_ser\/r414-reprint.pdf\">R-414<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>This was demonstrated recently in an April discussion on Gelman&#8217;s blog where the paradox was portrayed again as one of those typical cases where conditional associations are different from marginal associations. Strangely, only one or two discussants dared call: &#8220;Wait a minute! This is not what the paradox is about!&#8221; &#8212; to little avail.<\/p>\n<p>To watch the discussion more closely, click <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewgelman.com\/2014\/04\/08\/understanding-simpsons-paradox-using-graph\/\">http:\/\/andrewgelman.com\/2014\/04\/08\/understanding-simpsons-paradox-using-graph\/<\/a> . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simpson&#8217;s paradox must have an unbounded longevity, partly because traditional statisticians, so it seems, are still refusing to accept the fact that the paradox is causal, not statistical (link to R-414). This was demonstrated recently in an April discussion on Gelman&#8217;s blog where the paradox was portrayed again as one of those typical cases where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-general","category-simpsons-paradox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}