Author: Albert Silver
Date: 18:52:18 03/06/04
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>>You are completely wrong. A rating can only be 100% accurate if the participants
>>have played an infinite number of games. The SSDF would make itself rediculous
>>if they claimed to be 100% accurate. They give statistical confidence intervals
>>with all the ratings that they publish.
>
>I think we can say that they are 99% accurate, give or take the error bars.
>;-)
Well, unless the SSDF made a mistake in their calculations, I'd say their
ratings are 100% accurate, give or take the error margins. :-P
Not that this has anything to do with what I initially wrote.
Albert
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