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Judgmental Stats: Batting Average

Judgmental Stats: Batting Average

Feb 15, 2017
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This might sound familiar to you: I learned math by learning how to figure out batting average. I don't know how old I was when I first grasped that classic formula:

Hits / AB = Batting Average.

Maybe I was 10? I never had any ability to grasp geometry when I was young -- a flaw I seem to have passed along to my daughters -- but algebra generally made sen…

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