"They are there by the law of averages," he said.
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The law of averages does indeed suggest that some managers outperform.
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Was it the law of averages finally giving the Yankees a break?
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The law of averages says that you should probably watch this movie, right?
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Probably the biggest thing I had to realize was the law of averages.
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Joining forces with Axa would bolster both companies' bid to defy the law of averages.
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As long as he kept defying the law of averages, the bombs wouldn't fall and no one would die.
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Curry, Thompson break out as Warriors beat Cavs in Game 4 CLEVELAND — Steve Kerr called it the law of averages.
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Surely, by dint of the law of averages or just sheer luck, Price should have won Game 22008 on Saturday.
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But the law of averages is bound to turn around so we've been playing really good ball and it's something to build on.
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The Knicks won a bunch of close games earlier this season, and the law of averages may be working against them these days.
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Everyone on Happn doing laps of Leicester Square in the hope that, by the law of averages, somebody half-fuckable will pass them by.
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KAREN MCNEILRevising editorOxford Arabic DictionaryProvidence, Rhode Island We certainly won't argue with your assessment that Citadel has done "spectacularly well" of late ("Law of averages", August 227th).
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"Law of averages, if he continued to get the chances that he was going to get, it would be inevitable that the pucks would go in," Yeo said.
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The law of averages for how much sex and suicide those rooms had been witness to turned me on, or revolted me, or saddened me on any given night.
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Football is a team game, and everybody on the Seahawks played poorly in the first quarter at Charlotte: The law of averages had to catch up to the Blue Men Group someday.
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Yet "Spider-Man's" uncertain map for the future and the simple law of averages heighten the risk of getting its wings (or webbing) singed, sooner or later, if it insists on flying so close to the sun.
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The law of averages will dictate that the Bengals probably won't get quite so many opportunities from relatively in close: Eifert scored 240 red-zone TDs in '22017 and his other two scores came from an opponent's 22.
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It's also accepting that the law of averages indicates that people that you funded or hired are bad actors, and you need to be really receptive to hearing that and then you need to get rid of them.
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He cites 18-times major champion Jack Nicklaus as an example of how 'some you win, some you lose', but knows the main thing is to get into contention time and again and let the law of averages work in your favor.
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Still, the law of averages suggested a Yankees stumble would be coming soon: Before Sunday's loss they had won five in a row, part of a stretch in which the team had won seven of nine and 16 of 19 at home.
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Still, the law of averages suggested a Yankees stumble would be coming soon: Before Sunday's loss they had won five in a row, part of a stretch in which the team had won seven of nine and 16 of 19 at home.
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Despite the fact that the FBI says it is conducting 1,000 investigations of suspected Islamist militants in all 50 states, by the law of averages terrorists using low-tech weapons such as pressure bombs or legally acquired semiautomatic weapons will occasionally slip below the radar.
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A couple who intend to have five or six children (as Nigerians do today, for example) will almost certainly get a boy just by the law of averages, whereas a couple who would like one or two children are more likely to try to tip the odds.
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FIRST-ROUND BYES: CAROLINA PANTHERS (15-1), ARIZONA CARDINALS (13-3) The Panthers were an unstoppable force for much of the season, and their lone loss seemed to have more to do with the law of averages than any flaws in the team having been exposed.
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With legalization set to take place in Canada next year, Dr. Jonathan Bertram, an addictions physician at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, told VICE the "law of averages" means more and more people are likely to run into it at some point in their lives.
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I began to think that the law of averages was coming into play, that it had been far too long — the Titanic's sinking was over 100 years ago, remember — since a hyped, hubris-laden monstrosity of a luxury cruise liner went down at sea, sending thousands of souls to perish in a watery grave.
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Predictions based on the law of averages are even less useful if the sample does not reflect the population.
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Another application of the law of averages is a belief that a sample's behaviour must line up with the expected value based on population statistics. For example, suppose a fair coin is flipped 100 times. Using the law of averages, one might predict that there will be 50 heads and 50 tails. While this is the single most likely outcome, there is only an 8% chance of it occurring.
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The gambler's fallacy is a particular misapplication of the law of averages in which the gambler believes that a particular outcome is more likely because it has not happened recently, or (conversely) that because a particular outcome has recently occurred, it will be less likely in the immediate future. As an example, consider a roulette wheel that has landed on red in three consecutive spins. An onlooker might apply the law of averages to conclude that on its next spin it must (or at least is much more likely to) land on black. Of course, the wheel has no memory and its probabilities do not change according to past results.
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That evening, Bradman declined an invitation to dinner from Neville Cardus, telling the journalist that he wanted an early night because the team needed him to make a double century the next day. Cardus pointed out that his previous innings on the ground was 334, and the law of averages was against another such score. Bradman told Cardus, "I don't believe in the law of averages".Rosenwater (1978), p 229. In the event, Bradman batted all of the second day and into the third, putting on a then world record partnership of 388 with Bill Ponsford.The previous mark had been 323, set in 1912.
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This is difficult to achieve since the operator cannot control exactly how the ball will roll into the machine and between the wheels. However, by the law of averages, a ball will occasionally come out with its seam at the correct angle, and bounce unpredictably as a result.
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The magician John Booth wrote the experiment was not an example of telepathy as a high percentage of misses had occurred. Booth wrote it was more likely that the "hits" were the result of "coincidence, law of averages, subconscious expectancy, logical inference or a plain lucky guess."Booth, John. (1986). Psychic Paradoxes.
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Batman #700 Another Two-Face-Two is briefly mentioned during the course of the DC One Million storyline, with the Batman of the 853rd century comments how this villain was defeated when the second Batman convinced him that the law of averages proved his coin-tossing would ultimately cause him to make more 'good' decisions than he would 'bad' ones.
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The reservation is built on a polluted lake, which is a tourist attraction. In Lorado there are many forms of love and every one keeps a pet. Law of Averages, 1996, 15 min, color, computer generated. In a garden two lovers meet and begin a relationship that is complicated by a lack of exact compatibility, daily compromise and occasional sensuousness.
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Thoughts through Space: A Remarkable Adventure in the Realm of Mind. Hampton Roads Publishing. The magician John Booth wrote the experiment was not an example of telepathy as a high percentage of misses had occurred. Booth wrote it was more likely that the "hits" were the result of "coincidence, law of averages, subconscious expectancy, logical inference or a plain lucky guess".
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Tommy crawled out with nothing worse than a cut cheek. The admiral was shaken, but game: "All in a day's work, eh, boy?" Thompson however had walked away from more than 20 forced landings and now his fifth helicopter crash. Figuring he had stretched the law of averages too far, he replied, "Maybe for you, sir, but not for me".
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Contarino confronts Ercole about Jolenta. In their duel, both are seriously and almost fatally wounded, before they are discovered and brought to medical attention. Romelio is informed that the law of averages has caught up with his trading ventures, and that three of his carracks have been lost at sea. Ariosto, who brings the news, tries to counsel patience and fortitude to Romelio, but the arrogant merchant has no time for him.
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The Steve Goodman song "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" mentions the Law of Averages in reference to the Chicago Cubs lack of championship success. At the time Goodman recorded the song in 1981, the Cubs had not won a National League championship since the year the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan (1945), and had not won a World Series since 1908. This futility would continue until the Cubs would finally win both in 2016.
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As invoked in everyday life, the "law" usually reflects wishful thinking or a poor understanding of statistics rather than any mathematical principle. While there is a real theorem that a random variable will reflect its underlying probability over a very large sample, the law of averages typically assumes that unnatural short-term "balance" must occur.Rees, D.G. (2001) Essential Statistics, 4th edition, Chapman & Hall/CRC. (p.48) Typical applications also generally assume no bias in the underlying probability distribution, which is frequently at odds with the empirical evidence.
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One engineer commented, "While working on that bridge, we were just fugitives from the law of averages." On the same day, the Luftwaffe attacked the bridge for six and a half hours; American anti-aircraft gunners claimed credit for about 28 of the 47 aircraft. When the engineers finished the heavy-duty bridge 32 hours later at 5:10 am on Saturday, 11 March, it was the first Allied bridge across the Rhine. A German forward artillery observer with a radio was captured in Remagen, and artillery fire decreased markedly over the next 24 hours.
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In this example, one tries to increase the probability of a rare event occurring at least once by carrying out more trials. For example, a job seeker might argue, "If I send my résumé to enough places, the law of averages says that someone will eventually hire me." Assuming a non-zero probability, it is true that conducting more trials increases the overall likelihood of the desired outcome. However, there is no particular number of trials that guarantees that outcome; rather, the probability that it will already have occurred approaches but never quite reaches 100%.
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Alternatively, the amateurs of the world do not need to put forth any resources to gather themselves. That is, they already exist within the world, all that is left to do is work. And since the world is so large, amateurs outnumber professionals in many fields. For instance, even if there are only 1,000,000 amateurs in a field, that law of averages indicates that enough of them will be those "good amateurs" and therefore be able to compete with the limited number of "mediocre professionals" that make up most of the institutional space.
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As Self recalled, "On the fourth day we ran it, Ronnie finally missed one. Do you hear me? He went three consecutive days in a rapid- fire shooting drill without missing!" During his KU career, both Kellogg's basketball talents and his colorful persona were the subject of entertaining writeups in Sports Illustrated. In the magazine's 1985-86 college basketball preview, he was characterized as “a streak shooter who gets so worked up when he's hot that he sometimes forgets the score, the time remaining and the law of averages. . . .
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The Trophy, donated by Chance Vought Aircraft (now Ling-Temco-Vought) depicts a silver eagle landing into the arresting gear of the Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1). The inscription reads: > “The Venerable Order of the Gray Eagle. The Most Ancient Naval Aviator on > Active Duty. In recognition of a clear eye, a stout heart, a steady hand, > and a daring defiance of gravity and the law of averages.” Names of those who have held the title, either actively or prior to the 1961 ceremony, are inscribed on the trophy's plaque.
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The law of averages is the commonly held belief that a particular outcome or event will over certain periods of time occur at a frequency that is similar to its probability. Depending on context or application it can be considered a valid common-sense observation or a misunderstanding of probability. This notion can lead to the gambler's fallacy when one becomes convinced that a particular outcome must come soon simply because it has not occurred recently (e.g. believing that because three consecutive coin flips yielded heads, the next coin flip must be virtually guaranteed to be tails).
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The time spent there at the sprawling, busy, advance base was, truly, "a welcome rest" after the long hours of general quarters and alerts that were part and parcel of duty off Okinawa. "Although all hands had gained a great deal of confidence in our ability to handle air attacks", wrote the ship's historian, "it was difficult, after more than a month of picket duty, not to feel like fugitives from the law of averages, as so many other ships had been hit." Wickes--her availability alongside Prairie completed by early June--departed Ulithi on 7 June, escorting another slow convoy.
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Still, there are few true clunkers here (the less said about the maudlin stripper song 'Black Tears' the better). Listeners willing to play the law of averages are encouraged to roll the dice." Next, Jewly Hight of American Songwriter proclaimed that the "album is no wistful affair." Then, Dan MacIntosh of Roughstock stated that "Night Train is mostly far closer to Southern rock than traditional country." Lastly, Taste of Country's Billy Dukes was critical about how "In being too technical, ‘Night Train’ loses a little soul...yet from top to bottom, the singer’s fifth project leaves one wanting some magic never felt before.
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Regardless, the climate pattern prevalent throughout central Florida is evident in Bartow: hot, humid summers with frequent afternoon thunderstorms and relatively drier and mild winters. On average, a tropical system brings hurricane-force winds to the Polk County area less than once every ten years, although the 2004 hurricane season in which three hurricanes hit within 44 days was a case study in the law of averages. Until 2004, the most recent storm to bring hurricane- force winds to the Bartow area had been Hurricane Donna in 1960. While Florida's vulnerability to hurricanes is well known, hurricanes are not the most common severe weather threat seen in the Polk County area.
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Contestants were selected from the studio audience and answered questions based on statistical information, all for cash and prizes. "The Wizard" (Trebek) began the show by choosing three contestants and asking them questions based on the law of averages, with cash and prizes awarded accordingly for correct answers; an example of a question would be, "What are the odds a man will recover his lost wallet if there is more than $20 inside it?" The next three players were given a series of phrases and told to pick the one that did not match. The person with the most correct answers was given the chance to pick one of five prizes, located behind windows that were either "open" or "locked".
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Ideal prices, expressed in money-units, can be "estimated", "theorized" or "imputed" for accounting, trading, marketing or calculation purposes, for example using the law of averages. Often the actual prices of real transactions are combined with assumed prices, for the purpose of a price calculation or estimate. Even if such prices therefore may not directly correspond to transactions involving actually traded products, assets or services, they can nevertheless provide "price signals" which influence economic behavior. For example, if statisticians publish aggregated price estimates about the economy as a whole, market actors are likely to respond to this price information, even if it is far from exact, if it is based on a very large number of assumptions, and if it is later revised.
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One of the characteristics of frequency analysis of letters is that while the distributions of individual letters may vary widely from the norm, the law of averages dictates that groups of letters vary less. With the ADFGX cipher, each "side" letter or "top" letter is associated with five plaintext letters. In the example above, the "side" letter "D" is associated with the plaintext letters "d h o z k", and the "top" letter "D" is associated with the plaintext letters "t h f j r". Since the two groups of five letters have different cumulative frequency distributions, a frequency analysis of the "D" letter in columns consisting of "side" letters has a distinctively different result from those of the "D" letter in columns consisting of "top" letters.
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Like Thomas, he was dissatisfied with the game's Rock, Paper, Scissors sections, observing that "victory comes from blind luck, you'll sit there ... hoping the law of averages means you'll eventually choose the right option and escape from this Groundhog Day gaming hell". Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle has been included in a variety of Mega Drive game compilations for newer platforms. The game is part of the Sega Mega Drive Collection (known in America as the Sega Genesis Collection) for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable and was also released on the Wii's Virtual Console on April 9, 2007 in North America and May 4, 2007 in Europe. The game later appeared in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection / Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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Riley suffered a stroke in 1993 which caused paraplegia; he was unable to walk, and used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. The doctors attending to him erroneously thought that his condition was the result of drug use or a suicide attempt, and he was forced to live in a "convalescent home" for nearly 10 years, with people he described as "lowlifes, criminals, psychopaths, and token seniors with whom nobody wanted to bother." He participated in a musical project called Miasma of Funk, engineering and doing drum programming for a track titled "The Law of Averages" on the 1997 compilation album The Glory of Destruction. He was able to get out of the government care system in 2001, and moved into an apartment south of Chicago.
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She may have been branded "the shy one" on last year's show, but there's plenty of evidence here to suggest she won't take any crap (she insisted on co-writing each of the album's ten tracks)." The Independent gave a very positive review, claiming "By the law of averages, talent-show telly has to throw up at least one genuinely serviceable talent every ten years or so, and Rebecca Ferguson is surely that one." Cheryl Cole, Ferguson's mentor on The X Factor, expressed her views over the album stating "wow". The Independent said; "It's not hard to understand why: there's a hard central core of reality, of real lived experience, running through these ten songs that's almost diametrically opposed to the usual soul-diva cliches promoted by shows like The X Factor.
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Despite an illegal intrusion from the bench, the team won the championship, with a two-game total of 27-24. The Lords filed an official protest with the league, asking for the second game to be replayed. In November 1967, the Chateauguay Ramblers faced off against the Satellites in the Eastern Football Conference finals in Montreal, winning 33-13; the Ramblers noted after the game that several of their players were injured, and shouldn't have been playing. (In one of the games leading up to the finals, the team beat the Halifax Marcom Flyers 47-7.) Before the Canadian Amateur Football Association senior championship versus the St. Vital Bulldogs, team vice-president Bob Orr publicly worried about when the "law of averages" would catch up with the team, having won 54 out of the previous 56 games.
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Hugo Bergmann, 1959 He became a Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later on the dean of the university. He was friends with Franz Kafka, who was a schoolmate of his, the philosopher Felix Weltsch, who later worked at the Hebrew University Library in Jerusalem, and Max Brod, who he introduced to Zionism before 1910. He wrote on the nature of quantum mechanics and causality where he interpreted spontaneity in nature with the psychological idea that the closer we come to elements in nature or components in the individual, the less tenable is strict causal determinism and the more freedom we must grant to decisive personal elements: "In corresponding areas of physics, the statistical law of averages takes on the same functions in determining temporal position and in prediction and reconstruction that the strict law of causality previously covered, but with the distinction that the individual case could be temporally located and predicted or reconstructed before, whereas now we deal only with the average." (1929) He translated several of Rudolf Steiner's books about Threefold Social Order into Hebrew.
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