01-01-2022, 02:49 PM
While we're exchanging views, I'll just toss in a couple more items. --
I totally disagree that the Mavs have played their best basketball of the season during the COVID interval. If I'm wrong and this is the best they can do, then I have deep despair about the Mavs.
I am also struck by the idea that tiny sample sizes are statistically significant. One of the cornerstones of statistics is that when you use sample sizes that are too small to be representative, it can and does lead you into wildly improbably conclusions. Partnow emphasizes something we probably all viscerally know -- that misleading data (such as that supplied by mini-sample sizes) provides a significantly worse basis for reaching conclusion than no data.
I totally disagree that the Mavs have played their best basketball of the season during the COVID interval. If I'm wrong and this is the best they can do, then I have deep despair about the Mavs.
I am also struck by the idea that tiny sample sizes are statistically significant. One of the cornerstones of statistics is that when you use sample sizes that are too small to be representative, it can and does lead you into wildly improbably conclusions. Partnow emphasizes something we probably all viscerally know -- that misleading data (such as that supplied by mini-sample sizes) provides a significantly worse basis for reaching conclusion than no data.
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