Gary Carson said on 3/28/03 5:45 AM: >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.
I'm a serious Bridge addict, traveling to play in tournaments and I teach it. One of the things we say is "don't pay attention to results, pay attention to good playing decisions." We know the people who never really improve, they are too focused on results instead of making good decisions. Over time, you'll score better in the game if you are consistantly applying good methods, improving your methods, even though on any give hand you can get 'fixed' by a bad lay of the cards. If you adjust your methods each time you get a bad result you'll never develop good methods. Same thing applies in stats, or any learning situation. People who try Bridge and get upset everytime they have a bad outcome quit the game, even though they have the mind for it. Paul . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
