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Will Rogers phenomenon


 

The Will Rogers phenomenon is the apparent paradox obtained when moving an element from one set to another set raises the average values of both sets.

Reference

  • Feinstein AR, Sosin DM, Wells CK. The Will Rogers phenomenon. Stage migration and new diagnostic techniques as a source of misleading statistics for survival in cancer. N Engl J Med 1985;312:1604-8. Fulltext. PMID 4000199.