On 26 Mar 2003 13:50:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts) wrote: >At 04:09 PM 3/26/2003, Herman Rubin wrote: > > >i want to understand you ... are you saying that process is THE thing but, >results matter not?
Results matter. But, often an individual result does not matter. Law of Large Numbers and all that. I play a lot of poker. The result of any individual hand is whether I win or lose a pot. And as long as I have the process right -- make the right decisons in the play of the hand -- the particular outcome in terms of turn of the cards simply doesn't matter. If I get the process right (and am well bankrolled) eventually I'll get the money. Most human activities are like that -- an individual outcome from a single trial is usually not critical. Of course coming up with an answer of seven on a test item when the right answer is nine isn't quite the same thing as some kind of bernoillli trial -- butr it's still true that the process is really what's important. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
