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How does it have the same impact on outcome? You're talking about the associative property of multiplication but he's saying the luck factor can either reduce y
by BigMan555 10y ago
How does it have the same impact on outcome? You're talking about the associative property of multiplication but he's saying the luck factor can either reduce your success to 0 or multiply the outcome of your endeavor by 1000. It obviously does have an impact (note: the results of .9 * .9 * 1000 and .9 * .9 * 1 are different numbers).
- throwawayReply 10y agoThey're different numbers, but it makes no difference in terms of how far along the possible scale you are. If I score money as 0-1 and luck as 0-1000, then I have a possible overall score out of 1000. If I score 0.3 on money and 600 on "luck" then I've scored 180 out of 1000, or 18%. Or if both are 0-1 then I'd have scored 0.3 and 0.6, and overall scored 0.18 out of 1, which is still 18%, it's just the absolute number that has changed. But the absolute number isn't important in a scale which doesn't have meaningful units.
- BigMan555 10y agoI understood the absolute number to be of significance as the goal (eg. the absolute number is however many millions $ you'll make as outcome). But point taken, I don't think this was thought through :)