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...Simpson's paradox" in introductory statistics is an outcome that seems counterintuitive upon first inspection. On Monday night, a Simpson's paradox happened, and it wasn't only because the target of a pro-legal immigration protest was a man named Simpson...
Odds are that Senator Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.) did not go home that night to tell his wife that he'd be back at the Institute of Politics anytime soon. Odds are that he did not change his mind on the Senate bill S. 1394 restricting legal immigration. Odds are that other speakers may have been scared away. For Simpson had received the honorarium of a combative battery of questions following his speech in addition to the jeers of 150 bullhorn-touting, slogan-shouting, rabble-rousing students...
...information distributed by the Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition created the massive energy. Even those people who were just there because they were curious either joined the protest or read the fliers. People flocked to sign a petition asking the Judiciary Committee in the Congress to split Simpson's bill...
Asian-Americans and Latino-Americans are expected to be most injured by the Simpson bill, since they make up the majority of current immigrants...
...Once the immigrants are gone and there are no more scapegoats for America's economic problems, who will Simpson blame?" said Joel B. Pollak...