carbfree@aol.com made the following comment :
**In a message dated 9/10/2003 9:58:36 AM Central Daylight Time,
**John.G.Zaroff@delphi.com writes:
**<< On my first hand, I hit a royal. On hand 40,000 I hit a royal and on hand
**80,002 I hit a royal. Now, I can say I hit 2 royals in 80,002 hands ( about
**average). >>
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**and I thought you hit 3 royals in 80,002 hands
Carb, what I should have typed is " I hit 2 royals in 80,001 hands". Your statement about 3 royals in 80,002 hands is also true and yet another way of reporting the event.
This just shows that if you take some data, you can make a hypothesis fit the data. To be a valid experiment, you need to state the hypothesis first and then see if the data supports it. Thanks for the correction, carbfree.