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Simpson's Paradox

S. Apurba — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 11:47:41 +0000

I recently observed something strange during the college admission process of one of my close friends. Before the admission process, it was known that the admission rate for men was higher than the admission rate for women. The institution concluded that this was because men were more likely to succeed in the admission process compared to women.

However, when the data was analyzed separately for different departments, it was found that women were more likely to get admitted than men. This seemed paradoxical, as the overall trend showed a higher admission rate for men.

After some discussion and research, I learned that a similar phenomenon had occurred in the Berkeley Gender Bias Controversy in the 1990s, which gave rise to the concept of Simpson's Paradox.

Simpson's Paradox is a phenomenon where the data trends observed in different subgroups can be reversed or obscured when the data is aggregated. This happens when there are lurking or confounding variables that are not taken into account.

In the case of my friend's college admission, the lurking variable might be the selection criteria used by individual departments. These department-level selection criteria could be affecting the admission rates for men and women in ways that are not evident when looking at the overall data.

The key takeaway is that when analyzing data, it's important to consider the possibility of lurking variables that can lead to counterintuitive results, as seen in the case of conflicting admission rates.

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S. Apurba — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:31:55 +0000

Intro

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Everything or Enough !!

S. Apurba — Tue, 10 May 2022 02:12:45 +0000

The development community is a never ending infinite process, so as the programming and development itself. Plenty of things are available in the market and constantly encroaching the society day by day. In this field we as a computer science students or professionals are the ones who suffer the most. Where there is sufferings, there is also serenity. The only relationship we have is with the computers and programming itself. The two sided love will never end, we assure. No matter what will happen but we will be together forever like this.

The Brain 🧠 Game : Sudoku

S. Apurba — Sun, 08 May 2022 07:50:23 +0000

FROM my childhood, I love playing with numbers and mathematical figures. The one being the chess and the other being the Sudoku. The aspiring number game has attracted me the most since many years. Today also solving one, I stucked at one place and lost in the space. Then I realised that, yeah it's kind similar to what coding is. Then I started strengthening myself that yes although I don't know how to do it but I will surely figure it out. And that gives me enough power that, I sat back to my work and guess what by thinking and analysing finally I reached at my result.

"Don't ever loose hope in yourself. Be persistent what you are doing."

"The only Superpower I have."

S. Apurba — Sat, 07 May 2022 05:24:50 +0000

What we are ? What the definition as a human we have ? Why we are here and always grinding ourselves ? Many of us have surely encountered one or more among these questions. I am no-one but surely become someone the other day and will be become the only one, one day. Let's target all such questions one by one ?
Human as are we, have enormous potential to do each and everything that is possible in this universe. Today's human society is developing like nothing as well as the technology and scientific R & D. Somewhere between the society we are identified as programmers or computer science or system learners. But main thing is why all of this ? We are living our life like a doll which is sitting for a purpose only. We are not enjoying what we do or what we want to do. We are learning things for exams, interviews, placements, jobs etc but not even focussing how and why things happen for sure. One who does might face some difficulties that are mentioned below.
Can we say programming, "a open book examination" where you can assure that you can't write the proceedings or debug the errors without googling. Although everything comes hand in hand, even though we are unable to find out the required logic to the problem statement. Then of course we think that surely I am not for coding anyways. I am for some other things. But wait my friend, don't stop persevere, maintain consistency and believe in youself. Each and every one of us have surely faced all these things in their lifetime. So the only thing you have to remember, which also I have inculcated in my mind that,

_**"Altough I am not able to solve this problem right now, but I have a superpower and I feel like a super-human at these situations where I have one power that I can't stop trying out."**_

    Just say this to yourself and chill back and go and code again. Always remember, Slow and Steady wins the race..