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by cbsmith 1594 days ago
Honestly, it looks more like there's a lot of women with very low earnings, that perhaps skews the rest of the data.
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Such datasets have been demonstrated to exhibit Simpson's Paradox.
Correct. The first example on the Wikipedia page is a gender bias study that appears to show a bias against women in college admissions, but there was actually a bias in favor of women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox#UC_Berkele...