In a university, the data regarding the acceptance of males and female of qualified students is collected and summarized as follows: 62% of men accepted and only 47% of women accepted. However, before speaking with a lawyer, you ask for a more detailed summary of the acceptance records for the qualified males and female students by college; the following expanded summary is given: 75% of men and 80% of women are accepted in the Engineering department and 33% of men and 36% of women are accepted in the English deparment. That is, not only are the results different, they are the reverse. In the first analysis a higher percent of men were accepted, but in the second analysis a higher percent of women were accepted. This is due to which?
Simpson's Paradox
Miss calculations
Different data sets
Law of Parsimony