Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 05:33:41 10/27/03
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On October 27, 2003 at 08:24:28, Harald Faber wrote: [snip] >Statistics... always a funny topic. :-) >Consider 3 programs, A, B and C. C is much weaker than A and B. >Now A wins by 11-9 vs. B and wins by 12-8 vs. C. Then B wins 15-5 over C. The >table looks this way: >1. B 24pts >2. A 23pts >3. C 13pts > >A wins both matches but has 1 point less than B. >What is the conclusion then? ;-) That statistics is a fine discipline of math but conclusions of most human beings are mostly flawed because they don't understand it, do it intentionally to mislead others or both? Sargon PS. The sentence in its first flavour was more to the point but I edited it before pressing the submit button. ;)
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