Friday, January 16, 2009
Happiness, Intelligence, Graphs
Freakonomics does a back of the envelope investigation of Simpson's Other Paradox. (or should that be Other Simpson's Paradox?)
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1 comment:
Very interesting. Why did I unsubscribe Freakonomics blog? Time to rethink that.
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