I like Simpson’s paradox so much I wrote three chapters about it in Probably Overthinking It. In fact, I like it so much I have a Google alert that notifies me when someone publishes a new example (or when the horse named Simpson’s Paradox wins a race). So I was initially excited about this paper that appeared recently in Nature: “The geographic association of multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”. But sadly, I’m pretty sure it’s bogus. The paper compares... Read More Read More T