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Re:As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear sh... by gruez on Monday April 13, 2020 @02:54PM (#22858788)
>RTLD: 41 cited deaths among 3M grocery workers is a lower death rate than the population as a whole ?

If you're comparing grocers death rate against the population as a whole, that's not a good comparison as it doesn't control for grocer's demographics. I think that grocers would be younger (on average) than the the general population, and therefore should have lower death rates.

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Re:As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear sh... by meowface on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:05PM (#22858944)
What is the term for this sort of statistical error? I see it very often in online discussions.

I think it's related to Simpson's paradox [0] or general issues with interpreting conditional probabilities, but I'm not sure what the best overarching term is for this sort of fallacy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox

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Re:As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear sh... by syrrim on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:44PM (#22859790)
Failure to control for confounders.
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