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From: nigel on 25 Jan 2010 17:05 JC wrote: > On 25/01/2010 9:32 PM, nigel wrote: > >> JC wrote: >> >>> >>> This was a scientific study right? >> >> >> Dunno, you snipped the science bit. >> > > No, no I didn't. There was none. Take off the dark glasses - science isn't dangerous, it's fun.
From: Joe Horowitz on 25 Jan 2010 21:31 "JC" <uksf_x(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:MuednfIRxruqlsPWnZ2dnUVZ8kOdnZ2d(a)bt.com... > On 25/01/2010 6:26 PM, Joe Horowitz wrote: >> Well, we'd have to arrive at a workable definition of 'fluke' first. I'm >> not convinced we have yet. >> > > Hmmm, as I understand it a fluke is an accidental occurence/stroke of luck > so by definition intending to do something and achieving it , however > improbable, cannot be a fluke as it is not accidental. Walking away from a > basketball hoop, tossing the ball backwards over your shoulder, it hitting > a passing crow and going into the basket would be a fluke - you couldn't > realistically replicate it. Facing the basket and trying to get it in from > the centre spot and doing it 1 time in 10 wouldn't be a fluke in my > opinion as there is intention to do it and it could be replicated - its > just difficult. AWTWP. Therefore Figueroa's goal, and more importantly, my basketball shot against my next door neighbour when I was twelve, were not flukes. Thank-you for clearing this up for us. Whoever knew that the Son of God would have such a keen grasp of statistics? > If something being less than 100% likely makes it a fluke then every goal > must be a fluke as the are always less goals than attempts on target. Except in snooker, in which there are slightly more pots than misses. -- Joe "I am the fat puddin', but a single puddingness" - Vicky Conlan
From: nigel on 26 Jan 2010 05:18
Joe Horowitz wrote: > >>If something being less than 100% likely makes it a fluke then every goal >>must be a fluke as the are always less goals than attempts on target. > > > Except in snooker, in which there are slightly more pots than misses. > Not the way I play it :( |