What Is Simpson’s Paradox?

My high-school stats teacher once explained, during a lecture on how to lie with statistics, that Simpson’s Paradox is a statistical phenomenon where the data seems to prove the reverse of the truth. Simpson’s Paradox is how Gryffindor can lose to Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw and still get the Quidditch cup.

Anyway, it’s appropriate metaphor for life in China. I set up this site when I was living in Beijing and Blogspot / Blogger kept getting banned, thanks to the Great Firewall.

(Thanks to XKCD. There just aren’t enough stats comics.)

I blog to create an online scrapbook of good times — and some hilarious bad times — to look over later. I love having a digital scrapbook of life in other places when I travel. I started blogging to keep in contact with distant friends (which can be difficult as an expat) but blogging has also led me to awesome new friends.

I like that my blog generates enough income to pay its hosting fees, but this is my hobby before it’s an income stream (trickle). I’m interested in new sidebar adverts or exchanges with interesting sites, so feel free to send me your idea. Unless your idea was to do a search of female-authored blogs and massmail a mommyblog pitch about sippy cups.

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