1/ Pearl & MacKenzie had a great simplification of Berkson's paradox in The Book of Why. Skip thinking about hospitals. Instead, flip two coins 100 times but only keep the ones that have at least one heads.
6/ In the Berkson example, you induce a unwanted (spurious) dependence. In the (Von Neumann) randomness extractor example, you induce a desirable one!
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