Simpson’s Paradox: Edward Simpson’s 1951 Warning That a Trend Holding in Every Group Can Reverse Once You Add Them Up, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Must Distrust the Blended Number

Simpson’s Paradox: within each group the trend slopes down, but the pooled trend slopes up

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