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red75primetoday at 7:02 AM2 repliesview on HN

> I did however learn enough to know that statistics can tell you absolutely anything you want them to say.

When told to a statistically illiterate person who isn't aware of Simpson's paradox and so on?


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selcukatoday at 7:07 AM

> When told to a statistically illiterate person?

Which is a rounding error from 100% according to the GP.

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Tarq0ntoday at 8:53 AM

Being aware of Simpsons' paradox doesn't even help. There's no way of knowing what the right level of aggregation is without a theory.

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