Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:57:38 02/01/01
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On January 31, 2001 at 20:17:17, Bruce Moreland wrote: >I expressed very forcefully that a 10-0 result was more valid than a 60-40 >result. > >I've done some experimental tests and it appears that I'm wrong. > >I have no idea why. > >bruce If you know the probability of the stronger side to win and the only missing data is which side is stronger then I proved that only the difference is important and 20>10. If the case is close to this case(you do not know the probability of the stronger side to win but you know that it is close to 1/2 than the result will be also close to the result that only the difference is important so 60-40 will still be more valid than 10-0. If you assume that it also possible that one program is 400 elo better than the other then 10-0 may be more valid. Uri
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