Why are US cases of Covid-19 increasing while deaths are decreasing? “The answer is simple. It’s called Simpson’s paradox and it’s the result of incorrectly pooling data and arriving at a false conclusion.”
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Why are US cases of Covid-19 increasing while deaths are decreasing? “The answer is simple. It’s called Simpson’s paradox and it’s the result of incorrectly pooling data and arriving at a false conclusion.”
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