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Yeah it’s super annoying to fix! Was literally banging my head again a wall trying to fix it


I'm the author of this blog. Thank you for calling this out! I'll update the example to fix this :)


The example is fine, you are calling out confounding variables. Just call it confounders, instead of Simpson paradox.


FWIW, the arithmetic in that example also has a glitch. For the "Mobile" "Control" case, 100/3000 is about 3% rather than 10%.


this ended up being the fix! Thanks!


Hmm that's a bug and shouldn't be there. Sorry about that. Mind sharing any others you come across?


sorry about that! Site was getting a lot of traffic. Issue is fixed now!


Good to know! I had a look and actually my job board already has Sourcegraph jobs (I scrape jobs from all over the internet) - https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/sourcegraph

However, they were all classified as hiring in the US only. The reason is that the location is listed as "Remote". I used to classify "Remote" as "Anywhere in the world", however I found that many US companies tend to list the location as "Remote" but are only hiring for people based in the US (Companies in other countries will always include the country in the location field e.g. "Remote - UK"). Hence now I only classify the hiring location as "Worldwide" if the location field includes phrases such as "Worldwide" or "Anywhere in the world" etc.


Thank you. This is the way.

US recruiters: please use "Remote - US" if you mean "anywhere in the US", and only use "Remote" if you mean "anywhere in the world"


this should be addressed. It's a serious pain.


For the folks on this page looking for remote jobs: I've created a page where you can easily filter through jobs posted here by hiring location, salary, tech stack and company size.

I'd love to hear your feedback on it :)

https://www.remoterocketship.com/hacker-news-who-is-hiring


Looks like you got the hug-of-death - I see 504 error when I go to that page


Filtering doesn't work properly. 8 results for Germany, Go. 0 are displayed.


Oh no! Thanks for flagging. I've fixed this issue now


Thanks! I'll look into it!


This is super useful feedback! Thank you for explaining it so clearly. It all makes perfect sense

Re knowing which ATS the orginization uses, why is this important?


So far I'm mostly limiting my search to organizations with single page applications, and unfortunately over time I've gotten comfortable with filling out applications through specific ATSes. So, for example if an employer uses Greenhouse, I know basically what to expect and how to fill stuff in.

Also, in case you didn't know, a job that shows up at for example boards.greenhouse.io may show up embedded at example.com/jobs?gh_jid=123 if you navigate to it through the employer's jobs page. It may not matter in the end but when that happens I prefer submitting through the example.com URL instead of the greenhouse.io URL. This is one reason I want a link directly to the employer's main site.


That's good to know. Thank you! If you're up for it, I'd love to share an updated version with you once I've incorporated your feedback. If you are, let me know what the best way to get in touch with you is (my contact details are on the site)


Sorry, I'm keeping this account anonymous and I don't want to mess around with creating a throwaway contact point, and I also don't want to commit to reviewing this later. Fair question to ask though! I'm glad you found my feedback helpful.


That's a great tip! Thanks for sharing nate. I'll have a look at the book too


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