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I agree, both terms feel oddly specific to me when people throw them around casually, but the layman use is at least directionally correct. Much more cringe in
by greattypo 13y ago
I agree, both terms feel oddly specific to me when people throw them around casually, but the layman use is at least directionally correct.
Much more cringe inducing are all of the invented definitions of the Law of Large Numbers! (e.g. http://www.fastcompany.com/1825592/9-reasons-choose-corporate-job-over-startup http://www.fastcompany.com/1825592/9-reasons-choose-corporat...).
- Fomite 13y agoGuh. I encountered this so much on an investment site that I wrote a blog post about the Law of Large Numbers because it was annoying me enough that I wanted to have a shorthand link. http://confounding.net/2012/03/12/thats-not-how-the-law-of-large-numbers-works/ http://confounding.net/2012/03/12/thats-not-how-the-law-of-l... I equally hated "Well, it means something different in this field." No it doesn't, it's math. That's the whole point.