alternatives to traditional therapy

Named after British statistician Edward H. Simpson, who first described the paradox in 1951 (in the context of qualitative information), related results had been mentioned by Karl Pearson (and coauthors) in 1899, and by Udny Yule in 1903. One well-known real-life occasion of Simpson’s paradox occurred within the UC Berkeley gender-bias case of the 1970s,…