Re:Berkson's Paradox
by kgwgk on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:23AM
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Another difference is that Simpson's "paradox" involves all the subgroups that the full population is partitioned into, unlike Berkson's "paradox".
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I like how you put paradox in quotes. I also annoys me when people call these things paradoxes. They're more properly called counter-intuitive phenomena. I wonder if there's a single-word name for that.
paradox :-)
So I actually checked and... turns out you're right.
According to Wikipedia, "paradox" can either mean "logically self-contradictory statement" or a "statement that runs contrary to one's expectation". I always thought that it meant the former only.
These two concepts should really really have separate words.
Re:Berkson's Paradox
by getlawgdon on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:42AM
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You "checked Wikipedia," is that it? You're done now?