Simpson’s Paradox

Simpson’s Paradox by example

As we said, the university consists of multiple departments. For simplicity, we consider two such departments, namely Space Biology and Space Geography. There were numerous candidates representing all three major species for both of them. To simplify the analysis, we will focus only on comparing humans and Ferros. The summarized results are as follows:

Note: The green color indicates an admission rate higher than average, while pink is lower than average.

Humans and Ferros both sent 3000 applications each. But more than half of humans were accepted, while ...