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.
(Thanks to XKCD. There just aren’t enough stats comics.)
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. I lived in China for two years, I loved it, but my Mandarin is still best confined to menu-reading.
I work in New York City, developing gameplay for the MMO Next Island. Obviously this is my personal blog and not representative of my employer. This is not a good place to get tech support or game hints.
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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