Eli5: What is the Simpson’s paradox in statistics?

Question

Can someone explain its significance and maybe a simple example as well?

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Answer 1

No ones is explaining it like hes 5.

It’s significance is that it reveals stats can be interpreted with seemingly contradictory results, depending on how you interpret them. Ie, you can use the same stats to support 2 dif sides of an argument.