Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 06:59:49 05/31/02
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On May 31, 2002 at 09:43:17, Sune Fischer wrote: There is a physical analogy to this principle, this is how I think of the problem. If you have a cup of water (small pool of players) and you connect it to a much larger reservoir say the bath tup (large pool of players) and you create a good surface connetion between the waters (high correlation in the form of a lot of games), then the larger reservoir will dominate the temperature (the rating) and the water in the cup will end up with largely the same temperature as in the bathtup. Now if you have two very large reservoirs, like two large oceans and connect them only through a small creek (like having 100 people from Europe play 100 from Asia), it will be a small an effect and outside forces will dominate their temperatures. -S.
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