In the pre-TV days, it did actually have a lot to do with the preponderance of statistics.
Imagine a whole town coming out to “watch” a big game happening in another city. They all look at a scoreboard for three hours, while one guy gets updates by phone or telegraph and updates the board for all to see. To those fans, baseball often was statistics.
Then what do they do between games? No SportsCenter to watch, so you crunch stats and compare with your buddies. Imagine kids checking the papers every day and tabulating all their favorite players' hits, strikes, etc. to calculate the percentages themselves, then debating on the playground who was better.
So, stats are a large part of what built baseball fandom.
Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) gas engines have been discussed, designed, and tested for a long time. Direct injection HCCI is not a new idea either.
It is great that there's more progress being made, but let's not pretend Delphi invented the idea.
Because their audience is fluent.
No sense in explaining every piece of anatomy in layman's terms when you're talking to paleontologists who already have specific words for them.
...Unless you meant the sentence you quoted, which isn't really sophistry. What do you want? "Disagreement" instead of "dissension?"
Are "10% of colleges" and "10% of college admissions officers polled" necessarily the same thing?
No.
I can't find any more information about how the study was done.
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