Numbers/Numbers/Numbers

[skipperbob]

I'm really not trying to be a smartass, but I wonder if anybody else asks the same question; to wit: "Why all the discussion about variance,sample-size, confidence levels, regression-to-the-mean, statistical yada/yada/yada ?"...Isn't the only number that means anything at all, and at the same time means everything, your Party Poker account balance (-)deposits (+)withdrawals. I could, by-the-way, be easily convinced that none of it means anything at all; we just gamble to get it over with anyway!

[Irieguy]

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"Why all the discussion about variance,sample-size, confidence levels, regression-to-the-mean, statistical yada/yada/yada

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It's the equivalent of pinching yourself if you fear you may be dreaming.

Irieguy

[syka16]

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we just gamble to get it over with anyway!

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I should have told the prof that after I bombed my women's studies multiple choice final.