Re: [Phys-l] TV technology, the World Series and physics

[brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

On 10/22/2011 5:42 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> On 2011, Oct 21, , at 10:12, Bill Nettles wrote:
>
> > > Interesting stats! Thanks for the web link!
> > >
> > > Still, other things being equal, it IS easier to hit a home run out of
> > > a
> > > smaller park!
> > [Bill Nettles] This is merely one hypothesis, plus you have to define "easier". The data does not support this. What you said sounds like some of my students:"I studied hard and I know this material. I just couldn't put it together for the test."
>
> Hej!  He wrote "other things being equal".   Test w/ a "batting machine at the various parks w/ no wind and same sun and temp.  -- Hell, I can't believe this is necessary.
>
> bc
This is such a valuable talking point: the dilemma being this:
Which should have greater weight in the decision process:
carefully recorded and historically comprehensive data
or...
common sense conceptions of what should be?

There can only be one right answer to this dilemma, as it seems to me.

Brian W