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“regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

“Just as, looking at a Rorschach blot, you might see Madonna and I, a duck-billed platypus, the data we encounter in business, law, medicine, sports, the media, or your child’s third-grade report card can be read in many ways. Yet interpreting the role of chance in an event is not like intepreting a Rorschach blot; there are right ways and wrong ways to do it.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives