A paradox is a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
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Most interesting statistical paradoxes
Because I find them fascinating, I'd like to hear what folks in this community find as the most interesting statistical paradox and why.
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Name of the "paradox" reported by Gelman
In Andrew Gelman's book "Red State, Blue State" he analyzes the fact that rich people within particular states tend to vote more Republican than poor people, but that wealthy states tend to vote more Democratic than poor states.
Is there a name for…
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How can the nicest men in the conditioned subset be as nice as the average person in the whole population?
I don't grasp the bolded sentence beneath from Jordan Ellenberg's article. His diagram no longer renders, so I use these.
How can the nicest men in the green triangle be as nice as the whole population's average man? Wouldn't they be NICER than…
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Berkson's Paradox: How does further conditioning increase the negative correlation?
I don't understand the bolded sentence beneath from Cory Simon's BSc Ohio, PhD UBC old blog. How's negative correlation in the red triangle $<$ (to wit, 'more severe') negative correlation in green triangle?
From this natural compromising…
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Is the sleeping beauty paradox really one?
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_problem for the statement of this problem.
This seems to me to be a simple weighted average problem. Because the total number of days awake varies between 1 (Monday if heads) or 2 (Monday and Tuesday if…
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simulating the St. Petersburg Paradox
from the following simulation it seems the fee I am willing to pay should be smaller than 10, instead of $\infty$, differs from the paradox, what is happening here?
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For those that aren't familiar with the St. Petersburg Paradox, the…
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