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Ville Herva [v at iki.fi]


Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:24:08 +0200

Jesus, that must have been an Ethiopian marathon race - alsmost nobody finishing after 3:15. 3:15 is not easy - try it if you like. I could understand the big bunch of people arriving around 2:30 if this was a big country championship, but if there are amateurs present the big bunch would definetely arrive between 3:15 and 4 - even after that.

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:37:15 -0500

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:24:08PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote:

> Jesus, that must have been an Ethiopian marathon race - alsmost nobody finishing
> after 3:15. 3:15 is not easy - try it if you like. I could understand the
> big bunch of people arriving around 2:30 if this was a big country
> championship, but if there are amateurs present the big bunch would
> definetely arrive between 3:15 and 4 - even after that.

Since this is the only comment on it we've seen so far, I guess there aren't too many marathon runners among our readers... or possibly everyone figured that the data was essentially arbitrary and constructed to illustrate a point (bi-modal distribution and drawing too many conclusions from too little information.) In other words, it probably wasn't intended to be precisely representative.

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Ville Herva [v at iki.fi]


Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:23:26 +0200

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:37:15PM -0500, you [Ben Okopnik] wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:24:08PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote:
> > Jesus, that must have been an Ethiopian marathon race - alsmost nobody finishing
> > after 3:15. 3:15 is not easy - try it if you like. I could understand the
> > big bunch of people arriving around 2:30 if this was a big country
> > championship, but if there are amateurs present the big bunch would
> > definetely arrive between 3:15 and 4 - even after that.
> 
> Since this is the only comment on it we've seen so far, I guess there
> aren't too many marathon runners among our readers... or possibly
> everyone figured that the data was essentially arbitrary and constructed
> to illustrate a point (bi-modal distribution and drawing too many
> conclusions from too little information.) In other words, it probably
> wasn't intended to be precisely representative.

Yeah, and I wasn't precisely serious (although I did bad job at pointing that out.) A great article, otherwise!

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