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

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 08:29:20 02/23/03

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On February 23, 2003 at 05:57:59, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>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.

But after have played +500 games it/he/she can have +2700 doesn't it/he/she?

Tony

>Rolf Tueschen



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