01-01-2022, 03:50 PM
(01-01-2022, 03:00 PM)Kammrath Wrote: So if your wife cheated on you once you wouldn't find that "statistically significant" and would just move on with life as normal? How many times does she have to cheat on you for it to be enough data for you to pay attention to?
The point: Even a single data point is INCREDIBLY significant and is telling you something. Obviously MORE data is helpful, but oftentimes in life your data sets are small and you have to discern with wisdom how to interpret what is going on. The NFL deals with this ALL the time. Y'all are having fun mocking me for using a ten game set, but damn in the NFL that is a TON of data.
This might be the worse analogy I have ever read. Surly you see how silly this is?
You are posting small sample very noisy stats that don't have a lot of significance, as if they have a lot of significance. Folks are pointing out to you that there is a lot of noise in what you are providing and maybe forming conclusions from it is a little premature. Using infidelity as your counter argument is probably not helping.
The NFL is a different sport with different timelines. It's not a good comparison either. You realize you could probably cherry pick a 10 game stretch last year where we were the best team in the NBA, and another 10 game stretch where we were the worst. How much should we have gathered from that?
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