Friday, March 4, 2011

Rendition: superstistics

superstistics:

The use of prior evidence of one event to predict the outcome of another unrelated event - from the words superstitious and statistics.

Examples:
1. Toss a coin and get heads 100 times in a row and use superstistics to conclude that the next toss is more likely to be tails than heads.

2. A well known superstistics conclusion: "The outcome of Washington Redskins home football games has correctly predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1936." (snopes) 

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