Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:30:00 09/03/02
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On September 03, 2002 at 17:11:14, Peter Berger wrote: >On September 03, 2002 at 16:08:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 03, 2002 at 14:22:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On September 03, 2002 at 13:51:52, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>It is about the second digit being round, because >>>that makes the chance you have such a speedup 1/10 of >>>a chance. >>> >>>Bob claims a 2.0 speedup which bob claims according to >>>his paper based upon counting up all times then dividing >>>by total times. >>> >>>However if we look at every speedup individually then >>>if you get a 2.0 speedup that's in a range of 1.95-2.04 >>>RIGHT? >> >>Maybe or maybe not. I believe all those numbers were integers. And >>I very likely did the normal integer round-up so that numbers > 1.90 >>would become 2.0. I really don't remember now... >> > >I think this post might get missed in the jungle by accident but it shouldn't - >so I add an offbeat random answer :). >This was my first thought looking at the data - and it is the most logical >explanation by far IMHO. If needed - this could also be thought of as a flaw in >the original publication btw , much more reasonable than believing the data >itself is flawed I think. > >Regards, >Peter please look at my post http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?249532 The time in seconds does not make sense because when I divide I get always 0 in the second digit after the . and in most cases I get even 0 in the third digit after the . I checked now by calculator and the 1.90 or 1.80 or 1.70 is in most cases 1.700 or 1.800 or 1.900 It does not make sense to get always speed up of 2 or 1.90.. or 1.80.. or 1.70.. It does not mean that Robert Hyatt cheated and it is possible that the people who were responsible for the test(not hyatt) were too lazy to get output and analyze it so they prefer to cheat. Maybe there is another explanation but the data as it is does not make sense. Uri
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