A few months ago, I posted a blog that raised the question, “What explains racial, gender, and other group-based gaps?” After acknowledging the existence of all sorts of gaps across all sorts of ...

If you were to attempt to name all of the offensive characters in “The Simpsons,” you’d probably lose track after season five. However, no character has a more controversial legacy than Apu ...

(via Minute Physics) This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallacy where seemingly contradictory results are implied by a single set of data depending on how it's ...

What proportion of all 2 × 2 × 2 contingency tables exhibit Simpson's Paradox? An exact answer is obtained for large sample sizes and extended to 2 × 2 × ℓ tables by Monte Carlo approximation.