Jacqueline Kim
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- 50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions24 savers
- Berkson's paradox9 savers
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The people who make real change in the world are those who live on the knife edge between optimism (everything is really going to be okay) and pessimism (but everything is bad by default).
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsIf it’s really the path, you’ll find it more than once.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsLots of things that look like reverse correlation are actually Berkson’s paradox. Or: relationships that look like tradeoffs sometimes arise because of selection effects. It’s not a coincidence that super hot guys are never good in bed; they don’t have to be to keep dating you.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsBerkson's paradox, also known as Berkson's bias, collider bias, or Berkson's fallacy, is a result in conditional probability and statistics which is often found to be counterintuitive, and hence a veridical paradox.
Berkson's paradox