Simpson’s Paradox: How Numbers Can Lie?

How Statistics & Numbers can Mislead You

Recently, I come to know about one of the most interesting experiments that were conducted in the last century. It was quite surprising to swallow!

The experiment was conducted in 1996 to study the effect of smoking on a sample of over 1300 English women. The experiment was conducted for over 20 years. Quite a strong experiment. The most surprising thing was the outcome of the experiment- displaying SMOKERS tend to live longer than NON-SMOKERS — showed that the…