#3262: Sports Commentary

XKCD comic, described below.
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[Cueball and Ponytail are sitting at a table, looking at the wall behind them. On the wall is a screen showing a soccer field with some unreadable score information above it.(The only readable information is that the score is 2-1.)]

Cueball: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they've gone 0 for 2 when they've scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically.

[Caption below comic:]

I wish sports commentators hadn't discovered p-hacking.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.


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