Recent content by RogerWest

Thanks. Your main example is almost identical to my first exposure to Simpson's paradox. For many years, the GDP per capita has increased for developing countries as a group; and for industrial countries as a group. But for the same years, it has declined for the world! My query was primarily...

The so-called Simpson's Paradox arises frequently in medicine, economics, decision sciences, demography and many policy fields. Have there been any instances of it in physics (or chemistry)? Perhaps the most newsworthy instance of the paradox was in connection with possible gender bias in...

In a recent letter that Rodney Brooks published in Washington Post, titled "Physics That Makes Sense," he says: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/physics-that-makes-sense/2016/06/09/7fc19f06-2ccd-11e6-b9d5-3c3063f8332c_story.html