Apparent Decline As A Sign Of Improvement? or,Can Less Be More? |
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| Authors: | Sangit Chatterjee James Hawkes |
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| Institution: | 1. Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.;2. College of Charleston and Quart Systems, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. |
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| Abstract: | Improvement of a system need not be the usual growth expected of dynamic systems. Decreasing variability, an important index of improvement, is discussed. The disappearance of 0.400 hitters from professional baseball can be better understood under such an assumption. Other examples illustrating the apparent paradox are also mentioned. |
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| Keywords: | Teaching Average Baseball Stable systems Standard deviation |
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