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Coronavirus and Simpson’s paradox: Oldsters are more likely to be vaccinated and more likely to have severe infections, so you need to adjust for age when comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated people — Andrew Gelman

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Why newspaper reporting of "statistics" is often goes wrong. This is about vaccines and their efficacy but it applies to other areas as well, like economics. But a lot of the abuse of statistics is in media headlines about health.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social ScienceCoronavirus and Simpson’s paradox: Oldsters are more likely to be vaccinated and more likely to have severe infections, so you need to adjust for age when comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated peopleAndrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University

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Why newspaper reporting of "statistics" is often goes wrong. This is about vaccines and their efficacy but it applies to other areas as well, like economics. But a lot of the abuse of statistics is in media headlines about health.

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Coronavirus and Simpson’s paradox: Oldsters are more likely to be vaccinated and more likely to have severe infections, so you need to adjust for age when comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated people
Andrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University

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