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Subject: Re: I'm wrong about 10-0 vs 60-40

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:18:46 02/01/01

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On February 01, 2001 at 17:08:36, Amir Ban wrote:

>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.
>>
>
>No, you were right the first time. Check again.

The question is what is the meaning of a more valid result.

<snipped>
>10-0 gets better than 99.9% confidence for the winner to be better.
>
>60-40 has about 95% confidence.

I agree but the word confidence is misleading because you may ask the question
what is the probability that the winner is the better player and the confidence
does not give an answer to it.

Uri



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