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Love About Baseball

August 27, 2018

Baseball fans list what they love about the game; the statistician loves the large sample size.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-08-27-love-about-baseball/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

A: "What do you love most about baseball?" B: "The athleticism!" C: "The history." D: "The sample size."

A: "Uh... what?" C: "You don't sound like a baseball fan." D: "Oh, please. If I wanted athleticism and history, I'd watch old documentaries about gymnasts."

Topics
Statistics › Sampling & EstimationStatistics › Sports StatisticsStatistics › Data
Level
Middle SchoolHigh SchoolAP Statistics
Themes
Sports