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Figure 6-12:
Bar Graph displaying Conditional Distributions for
Major Given the Gender Admitted
The apparent inconsistency in the example falls into a category of problems
known as
Simpson’s paradox
. One can claim that there is gender bias in
either direction that is not apparent by just looking at the marginal
distributions for gender
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