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Grönroos says...

Not winning doesn't necessarily mean losing. For instance there are lots
of
sports - like football in which games can result ties as well.

But a war is something different from a football match.
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Naturally. I guess ties are possible at wars too. The measure is just far
more complex than scoring tables.

Tim C. writes:

You might start he

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 93, p 1215.

Also work by Peter Hochachka and colleagues from the University of
British Columbia, and others from the University of Alberta.

Cynthia Beallt from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,
Ohio. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI:
10.1073/pnas.252649199)

I was hoping for URLs.

Tim C. writes:

It quite regularly gets hotter than average.

And it just as regularly gets colder.

Hatunen writes:

It's impossible for it to never get hotter than average.

Well, if the temperature is absolutely constant, it will never get hotter than
average, but that's obviously very theoretical.

You can get a consideable argument in some gatherings by stating
flat out that 50% of people are below average in intelligence.

This is why most things are dumbed down so that people of significantly
substandard intelligence can use them. If you design them for average
intelligence, half the population cannot deal with them.

Jack Campin - bogus address writes:

Most of us also have more than the average number of legs.

The number of legs people have is not normally distributed. Variables with a
wide range and fine granularity, such as height, intelligence, beauty, etc.,
do indeed follow a normal distribution.

William Black writes:

Actually you can show that it's below the natural average.

No, you can't. The validation and target cohorts exclude anomalies for the
most part.

William Black writes:

Where else do you find it?

Europe is the same way. I presume most of the world is that way. People tend
to overcompensate for whatever extremes they are most familiar with, so in
cold climates people tend to heat too much, and in hot climates they tend to
cool too much.

UC writes:

Oh Yes! How forget about Bulgaria? Which other countries except USA are
over-using energy?

All of the developed world--especially for heating (since most of the
developed world is in cooler climates).

UC writes:

But using 50% of overall world energy is a uniquely American phenomenon.

It's not a phenomenon for any country, including the USA. The United States
consumes a bit less than 25% of worldwide energy, and even this must be
compared to per capita consumption and GDP. In general, productivity tracks
energy consumption.

Dirty Father Mucker writes:

It's also been well shown education results in less reproduction. We
know the pattern, but we can't attribute it to anything in particular.

The best way to reduce reproduction other than birth control is to educate
everyone and ensure that women are treated with equality as compared to men.