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Any time you start conditioning on something, i.e. selecting subsets of data to analyze. You can fool yourself quite often if you do something seemingly innocuous like select "everyone with at least one X" and compare expectations to what's true unconditionally (meaning not conditioning on anything, not "in all cases") with conditional computations.


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