Season 2 Episode
- Season 2 The Monty Hall Problem
- Season 2 Simpson's Paradox
- Season 2 Non-Euclidean Geometries
- Season 2 Planar Tessellations
- Season 2 Graph Theory
- Season 2 Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes
- Season 2 The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs
- Season 2 Chaos Theory or Order in Disorder
- Season 2 Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
- Season 2 Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?
Journey into Maths Country - Season 2 Episode 2 Simpson's Paradox
8.50 10 minutes Statistics seem, almost by their very nature, to convey a positivist message. They are, in fact, a formidable tool in the attempt to master the complexity of the real world...
But numerous "biases" threaten any discourse that refers to them without care: an over-simplistic reading of the figures can lead us - for example - to confuse correlation with causation... And more complex phenomena (notably Simpson's paradox) can distort conclusions that seem objective.
