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		<title>The Batting Average Paradox</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>In the normal course of my web browsing, I stumbled upon the <a title="Stephen E. Schwartz homepage" href="http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/schwartz.html">home page</a> of <a title="Stephen E. Schwartz bio" href="http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/schwartz-bio.html">Stephen E. Schwartz</a>, an atmospheric scientist at <a title="Brookhaven National Laboratory" href="http://www.bnl.gov/">Brookhaven National Laboratory</a> and&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the normal course of my web browsing, I stumbled upon the <a title="Stephen E. Schwartz homepage" href="http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/schwartz.html">home page</a> of <a title="Stephen E. Schwartz bio" href="http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/schwartz-bio.html">Stephen E. Schwartz</a>, an atmospheric scientist at <a title="Brookhaven National Laboratory" href="http://www.bnl.gov/">Brookhaven National Laboratory</a> and chief scientist of the Department of Energy’s <a title="DoE's Atmospheric Science Program" href="http://www.asp.bnl.gov/">Atmospheric Science Program</a>.</p>
<p>The page gets pretty technical for those of us who are not atmospheric scientists, but near the bottom of the page he mentions “the batting average paradox” – which contains a surprising bit of math that any of us can appreciate…</p>
<p>“<strong>The batting average paradox.</strong> Able has a higher batting average than Baker in the first half of the season and also in the second half. You might think that that means that Able has a higher average for the season.  But you would be wrong. <a title="The Batting Average Paradox" href="http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/paradox.pdf">Click here to see why averaging ratios can be misleading</a>.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/paradox.pdf" target="_blank"> </a></span></span></span></p>
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