Re: Ranked #1 in [customized salmagundi]
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The set of:
1) Cornell University Bio Majors
2) The winrates of poker players who use an XBox gamepad to control their play.
With 99.999999999% confidence, I am #1.
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Well #1 isn't an event. And, if you were put into a contest with EVERYONE in the world, and made them all play poker with an XBox controller, I no longer think you'd be ranked that high. What about giving Phil Ivey a chance at playing poker with your controller, and see if he bests your winrate, for example. Just because no one has tried something before doesn't mean that they'd be ranked poorly. I'm assuming some Absolute Truth with respect to ranking an individual at a specific moment in time. Like, if at THIS INSTANT I was told to race a horse, I don't think I'd be the worst at it in the world despite never having been on a horse.
But, I agree that specification is the loophole. What if, as the other poster suggested, we used more "normal" events. Hot dog eating given a specific time frame would be allowed, as would long-distance running vs short-distance.
-RMJ
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