A university looks at the admission acceptance rates for its graduate schools in

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A university looks at the admission acceptance rates for its graduate schools in business and in law. For the business school, the percentage of female applicants that get admitted is higher than the percentage of male applicants that get admitted. For the law school, the percentage of female applicants that get admitted is higher than the percentage of male applicants that get admitted. But when combining the two schools, the percentage of male students that get admitted is higher overall than the percentage of female students that get admitted. This finding is possible because of:

Simpson's paradox

the placebo effect

blocking

double blinding

Simpson's paradox

the placebo effect

blocking

double blinding

Explanation / Answer

Simpsons' paradox is the trend that is visible in different groups of data (difference in percentage of female applicants and male applicants in business and law school, for both female applicants>male applicants), but the trend reverses when the groups are combined (combining two schoold, the percentage of male students>percentage of female students). Option A.

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