This will be my last post on the matter, but I'll read your response if there is one (although I don't expect it to be anything other than evasive).
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Originally Posted by Mason Malmuth
I'm sorry, but this paragraph shows how little you understand about this subject. Again, it's all explained in my book. You just can't look at one particular simulation with a specific expectation and a specific standard deviation. You need to develop an understanding of the relationship of these two parameters and how this relationship can affect your results.
I understand perfectly fine that a 3500 hand sample is incredibly small, so much so, that you are making a fool out of yourself pretending like your original statement was correct. You could have just said you made a mistake or misspoke, but instead you prefer to shift goalposts and try to save face.
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Originally Posted by Mason Malmuth
I'm not encouraging any behavior. All I'm doing is commenting on how the underlying statistical theory relates to this stuff.
I've been talking about statistical theory and I am highly qualified to talk about this stuff.
I'm talking about in general when you advertise poker strategy books and teach poker strategy with authority, despite no proof whatsoever that you beat the games. This not only teaches your students to be gullible, but it also encourages scammers to take advantage of this gullibility.
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Originally Posted by Mason Malmuth
This paragraph is really strange. Are you aware that I'm the one, with some help from others, who started this website (and forums) in 1997? And as the majority site owner until this site was sold a little less than three years ago, I always signed my posts and have opted to continue to do so
I brought it up as a sort of analogy. You do things which if everyone else did it also, it would be bad. If everyone sold poker advice without proof of skills, it would be bad, just like it would be very annoying if everyone signed their posts. It also makes you look a bit silly, despite purporting yourself to be an intellectual. Everyone's name is already on each post (and in your case with bright red bold letters), so it adds nothing to sign it, and causes the user to unnecessarily scroll. Obviously this is not a big deal, but it's a tell about your attitude.