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amarshallyesterday at 1:12 PM3 repliesview on HN

Seems like a case of Simpson’s Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox


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fenazegoyesterday at 11:05 PM

This is not a case of Simpson's Parodox, at least the analogy about accuracy vs speed from the article isn't. You're not comparing global vs subgroup correlations. On the one hand you're measuring how speed and accuracy are correlated across the population when you ask subjects to solve a problem. On the other hand, (rather than measuring subgroup correlations) you're measuring how accuracy is affected when you ask an individual to speed up or slow down.

mday27yesterday at 8:13 PM

never heard of this before, very cool

QuantumNomad_yesterday at 1:21 PM

Not to be confused with Flanderization.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization