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Experience Simpson's Paradox in the Classroom

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  • Jiangtao Gou
  • Fengqing (Zoe) Zhang

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Simpson's paradox is a challenging topic to teach in an introductory statistics course. To motivate students to understand this paradox both intuitively and statistically, this article introduces several new ways to teach Simpson's paradox. We design a paper toss activity between instructors and students in class to engage students in the learning process. We show that Simpson's paradox widely exists in basketball statistics, and thus instructors may consider looking for Simpson's paradox in their own school basketball teams as examples to motivate students’ interest. A new probabilistic explanation of Simpson's paradox is provided, which helps foster students’ statistical understanding. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

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  • Jiangtao Gou & Fengqing (Zoe) Zhang, 2017. "Experience Simpson's Paradox in the Classroom," The American Statistician, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 71(1), pages 61-66, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:amstat:v:71:y:2017:i:1:p:61-66
    DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2016.1200485
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    1. Haikady N Nagaraja & Shane Sanders, 2020. "The aggregation paradox for statistical rankings and nonparametric tests," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(3), pages 1-21, March.

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