"John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> writes:
> You're close, Tom, but still off the mark. Let me give you an example of
> how far off the mark.
>> A fellow officer got a Gold Medal at an Olympic event. There was another
> Gold Medal winner in the same event who got a Gold Medal, who scored 32%
> higher. There were 9 other men in this event who all scored more than 30%
> higher; one got a Silver Medal, one got a Bronze Medal, and 7 got no medals.
>> I'll bet you know why this fellow officer got a Gold medal, while the 7
> contestants who scored more than 30% higher got no medal?
I expect the same reason that every year the Boston Marathon, held not
far from where I live, has one winner who came in around 30th, and
another winner who came in first (and actually gets less publicity in
the local media)
--
Tom Breton at panix.com, username tehom. http://www.panix.com/~tehom
