Simpson's Paradox: Covid-19 fatality rates and the UC Berkeley Gender Bias Study

Simpson’s Paradox is illustrated using COVID-19 fatality rates for Italy and China. Paradoxically, Italy had lower fatality rates for all age groups but a higher fatality rate overall. Simpson’s paradox is then further explored using the 1973 UC Berkeley gender bias study.

Contents:
COVID-19 CFR Case: 0:00
UC Berkeley Sex Bias Case: 4:24

References:
[1] von Kügelgen, J, et al. 2020, “Simpson’s Paradox in COVID-19 Case Fatality Rates: A Mediation Analysis of Age-Related Causal Effects”, PREPRINT, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen.

[2] Bickel, E., et al. 1975, “Sex Bias in Graduate Admissions: Data from Berkeley” Science, vol.187, Issue 4175, pp 398-404

Attribution:
The photo of UC Berkeley was taken by Tristan Harward and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.

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