you have a post in mind?

as has been asked by me and others, what do you think it means if one product has a larger standard deviation than the other?

here's the beauty in this kind of product:

let's say i have two people measure the lengths of all the pieces of straw in a bale. after they are done, i burn the straw so you have no way of knowing the true measure of any of the straw. now you take these people's measurements and put them in your newfound stddevp function in excel. what is this going to tell you? let's further state that the differences between the measurements are significant. what does this mean?

here's something that might have some interest and would be much easier: we can take the upcoming gulfstream meet and compile the percentage of winners with the best last race number. we'll toss in bris, the sheets, and thorograph. if someone wants to toss in beyer, that's fine also. if you only get the sheets on the weekends, we'll only use weekends. you want to use a different meet, we'll use a different meet.

this does nothing to address the pattern issue. i haven't thought about it enough to say it's valid or not. i just said there might be some interest here.