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by Lior539 1094 days ago
I'm the author of this blog. Thank you for calling this out! I'll update the example to fix this :)
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The example is fine, you are calling out confounding variables. Just call it confounders, instead of Simpson paradox.
FWIW, the arithmetic in that example also has a glitch. For the "Mobile" "Control" case, 100/3000 is about 3% rather than 10%.