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Subject: Re: Dangers in CC - SSDF: Terminology, Statistics

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 02:57:59 02/23/03

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On February 23, 2003 at 04:50:42, Janosch Zwerensky wrote:

>> You can't compare apples and peas. :)
>
>The mathematics behind both lists is quite similar (except for the fact that
>FIDE, or anyone else in human-vs-human-chess for that matter, doesn't give
>confidence intervals for their numbers), isn't it?

It is, but -

It is forbidden to apply a mathematical routine in different fields and then
simply take the results for comparisons or even call them equally valide or
whatever. E.g. I never saw a human player get "2700" Elopoints days after his
birth... Not that it matters.

Rolf Tueschen



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