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" In statistics, this phenomenon is known as Simpson’s Paradox: when a whole body of data displays one trend, yet when broken into subgroups, the opposite trend comes into view for each of those subgroups. "

Cathy O'Neil , Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy


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Cathy O'Neil quote : In statistics, this phenomenon is known as Simpson’s Paradox: when a whole body of data displays one trend, yet when broken into subgroups, the opposite trend comes into view for each of those subgroups.