World Cups and the Curse of Low Sample Sizes
<p>Putting all the justified controversy around the tournament in Qatar and the ridiculous amount of corruption inside FIFA aside (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMqLDhl8PXw" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">“A cartel-like group of scumbags and assorted criminals who occasionally put on soccer matches.”</a>), what struck me in all the outrage of German media about the German team dropping out (“a disgrace, a shame, a dishonor”) is that no one ever mentions the ridiculously low sample size that led to Germany dropping out of the tournament.</p>
<p>People love looking for patterns, structural deficits, and profound explanations, and in no place more than football, an infinite canvas for projections for millions and billions of fans around the world.</p>
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