Berkson’s Paradox by prawn

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An example of Berkson’s paradox: Top: a graph where talent and attractiveness are uncorrelated in the population. Bottom: The same graph truncated to only include celebrities (where a person must be both talented and attractive, in some combination, to have become a celebrity). Someone sampling this population may wrongly infer

ByHackTechJanuary 16, 20250Comments

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The terrible paradox of air pollution and climate change by ahaucnx

“The smoke is very thick, like a dark mushroom in the sky,” said reporter Gus Abelgas in a 1991 television broadcast on the ongoing volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. “It’s just like what we saw in Hiroshima.” After 500 years of dormancy, Mount Pinatubo’s June explosion represented one of the largest volcanic

ByHackTechSeptember 18, 20230Comments

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Friendship Paradox by rippercushions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Diagram of a social network of 7-8-year-old children, mapped by asking each child to indicate two others they would like to sit next to in class. The majority of children have fewer connections than the average of those they are connected to. The friendship paradox is the phenomenon first observed

ByHackTechMay 18, 20230Comments

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Deming Paradox: Operationally Rigorous Companies Aren’t Nice Places to Work by nsoonhui

This is an investigative note, and only nominally part of the Becoming Data Driven in Business series. A fair warning — this essay is not intended to be as useful as prior essays in the series.One of the things I’ve been doing while writing this series on data is that I’ve been spelunking in the

ByHackTechApril 25, 20230Comments

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Jevons Paradox by rememberlenny

In economics, the Jevons paradox (; sometimes Jevons’ effect) occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises due to increasing demand.[1] The Jevons paradox is perhaps the most widely known…

ByHackTechJanuary 11, 20220Comments

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The Screening Paradox by ash

“The largest threat posed by American medicine is that more and more of us are being drawn into the system not because of an epidemic of disease, but because of an epidemic of diagnoses. The real problem with the epidemic of diagnoses is that it leads to an epidemic of treatments. Not all treatments have…

ByHackTechJanuary 8, 20220Comments

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