I first heard of this idea a few months ago in a blog post at The Atlantic.
Aha, yes—which I think I in turn was linked to by Ben Goldacre. But the reason I was quickly able to enumerate this as a separate kind of correlation is because the causal graph is different, which would be Judea Pearl.
Yup. I’m reading the link from this post and just got to the discussion of Berkson’s paradox, which seems to be the same effect.
I first heard of this idea a few months ago in a blog post at The Atlantic.
Aha, yes—which I think I in turn was linked to by Ben Goldacre. But the reason I was quickly able to enumerate this as a separate kind of correlation is because the causal graph is different, which would be Judea Pearl.
Yup. I’m reading the link from this post and just got to the discussion of Berkson’s paradox, which seems to be the same effect.