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George Pappas is a professor of philosophy at Ohio State University

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Are you suggesting that that list was written by some who DOES know what standard deviation is?

17. Bet more when you’re winning and less when you’re losing. Not because the odds have changed in some miraculous way, but because if you’re winning, you have a bigger bankroll, and you could experience some standard deviation.

that is an awkward way of putting it, but I read some of the list and who ever wrote it is... not Pappa g.
 
I'll tell you what really amazes me about Wayne Gretzky though. He had a period of like 8 years where he had more assists than anyone else had points. Like I'm saying you could disregard the 500+ goals he scored in that period ---> he was still the scoring leader.

Completely unprecedented and unduplicated since. The separation between him and his peers was mind-boggling.

What is most amazing about it to me is you'd think someone on his team would be somewhere in the scoresheet area with him. Like a linemate should be converting those passes or feeding him for those goals. Even if that linemate is not nearly as good, you'd think they couldn't help but get dragged along.

But I guess it was just spread around to that degree. Any time he was on the ice in any circumstance with anyone no matter how briefly, he was making goals happen.



I repeat, 8 years.
 
Like sometimes people try to compare Michael Jordan to Wayne Gretzky in terms of most dominant individual performances of our time.

Jordan would have to have been averaging like 45 points a game for 8 years to be in that discussion.