Did you men follow to the book?
Funny, but the evening before I watched the movie, "Moneyball" where a mathmetician came into the Oakland Athletics baseball team and completely changed the way the team both looked at and played the game.
The A's suffer from a historically low budget which makes it nearly impossible to attract talent. This mathematician just focused on the numbers like the percentage a player gets on base, and the number of times he gets "walked"
They set up the roster and played that year.
The first half of the year was a disaster solidly placing them in last place in their league. It happened because the head coach refused to go along with the GM who wanted to try the mathematician's theory.
A big shake up occurred and finally at mid season the A's started just playing the averages. They won that game. Then they began to win more, and before the end of the season actually did something no other baseball team has ever done, they won 20 games straight!
They lost in their early playoffs, but to see a team go from dead last to first is something that can only be explained by the math.
Thinking that way is the way of the tactical battlefield commander, something I recognized pdq.
The next day I found the study you see above and also read about how we misinterpreted the use of both the WW1 and the WW2 helmets. We were having all sorts of head injuries so the helmets were deemed unsafe. That lasted until another mathematician pointed out the helmets did cause the injury, but without the helmet the encounter would have not been survivable.
Fast forward to the desert wars. We now for the first time have a new category of injuries, traumatic brain injury. The reason we have this now is that the casualties would have expired had it not been for the vest armor we wear that kept the body alive but let one's appendages and head to suffer the trauma of the blast.
Numbers...Numbers hold many keys to really understanding what is actually happening
Any question why math is not something our schools emphasize or require excellence from our kids? "They" wouldn't want too many smart kids walking about, now would they
