Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Alternative Ways for Picking World Cup Winners

Symmetry around the 1982 World Cup gets it right 5 out of 7 times (HT: Adam).


Conversely, a German octopus has correctly predicted the winner of every German match so far. Put your money on Spain in the semifinal (HT: Grant Wahl).

File this all under "correlation does not imply causation". I prefer a more systematic, numbers-based analysis, but far be it from me to tell you how to pick your winners. Happy World Cup semifinal viewing.

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